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Hot take. Every single Fire Emblem protagonist is a horrible person because they all reinforce a system of absolute authority of a dictator (except for Ike, but he kills people for money). I think most, if not all, of you will find that to be an absurd statement, and I honestly don't believe it myself. But it's true. All of them believe in the power of a monarch with the inherent absolute authority. But we give them a pass because they don't live in our real world, they live in a fantasy medieval world where that is the standard. But we have our own medieval world and this is something that crops up when we do analyze history. And it's a bit inconsistent and steeped in bias as to how we apply it. Here are some examples of how I think things are perceived by general western modern culture. -To start with, a group who definitely does not receive is the Nazis. We see them as the absolute standard for evil and just abhorrent people all round. Yet we know the actions of the Nazis didn't occur because an inordinate number of evil people just happened to be born. They were a product of their time created from their culture. Now do not mistake this as me trying to defend the Nazis, obviously I think they are absolutely monstrous in idea and action. I'm just trying to demonstrate there are other pretty dang evil groups which we do not view the same was as we view the Nazis. So because we see them as the standard of evil, I want to set that standard first and measure it against the following). -Aztecs. Few to none are going to praise the Aztecs as a model of society, but it seems the fact that they're a few centuries old dilutes our view of them a lot. Like, they freaking ate people as a cultural practice. And not just as some small tribe, it was a sophisticated state institutionalized mass ritualistic cannibalism. That is ridiculous. To the extent that if the Aztecs didn't exist and someone wrote a fantasy novel about a culture like that, it would be seen as too over the top to be taken seriously. --On the subject of ritual, human sacrifice in general. We view straight up murdering people for religion as more ignorant than evil fundamentalism. They thought the crops would grow if they killed some dude. But, imagine if a conspiracy theorist killed someone today, we would judge them way more harshly for it even if they genuinely and earnestly believe they were saving the world from the Illuminati or lizard people or something. We expect them to be capable of knowing better, and honestly, shouldn't we expect ancient societies to know better than to kill people at random to appeal to an imaginary force? The people of the past were not idiots, they should have been capable of realizing human sacrifice was doing nothing to help them after the first time it failed to do anything. -Colonialism. I think we view colonialism as bad, but not Nazi bad because it was mostly our western countries doing it. But entire continents were almost wiped out as a result of colonialism, both culturally and genetically. When the Nazis conquered Belgium we do not see it as them fighting against the people responsible for the massacres in the Congo, even though the Congo was literally still a Belgian colony during World War II, though the regime had cleaned up considerably by the late 30s, the Leopold era of Congo genocide had been just thirty years earlier, but modern Belgians don't have nearly as much baggage as modern Germans when it comes to past atrocities. I would say it's because we can just lump the blame all on Leopold himself, but Belgians genuinely view him as a decent king with a few skeletons in his closet rather than Hitler 0.1 -The American Confederacy. These guys get no sympathy at all despite being pretty far back in history by now. And something of that might have to do with America being the strongest and most influential power in our modern day. But what I find particularly interesting with that conflict and era is the double standard that would apply to the people on the other side. Lincoln is hailed as just the best guy ever, but he was more of a moderate when it came to slavery, appeasing the Confederate states a lot, and if asked his opinion on race, he'd likely say the African Americans are best shipped off to Liberia. These views we would think of as racist today are given a pass for being a man of his time. But that same pass is not given to the people who were raised at the same time in the culture of chattel slavery and were brought up to see it as normal. --I suppose this brings up the idea of relativism relativism. That, we can be relative about people from a certain era in comparison to us, but if they are bad relative to a comparable group from the same time or place then we can judge them more harshly. Like, people say we can declare Columbus as evil because he was arrested for his crimes in his own life time, as if the suffering of his victims would have been any less if the Spanish monarchy didn't care about how he treated the natives. -Genghis Kahn. Whoa boy. This guy served genocide for breakfast! His death toll might very well be higher than Stalin's! And unlike Stalin who mostly gets his kill count via unintentional famine, Genghis Kahn was out there explicitly slaughtering people on mass by the sword. Yet a thousand years ago is so long in the past that its considered just an interesting point of study as a historical figure and not an absolute monster. In fact, he's glorified in Mongolia with giant statues. Will Germans feel the same way about Hitler in a thousand years time? Probably not, but I'd say it's down to the fact that Hitler failed while Genghis Kahn succeeded in all his pursuits rather than one being a better person than the other. What probably helps here is that we have some good things we can point to what his rein did in terms of religious freedom and stuff, but it kind of pales in comparison to the sheer amount of people wiped out. -The Ancient Romans. These guys were blood thirsty conquerors. Their entire system depended on constant expansion. Yet we view them very positively for their architecture and organization skills instead of seeing them as fascists out to bleed everyone else dry to maintain their empire. Our perspective might be aided by their strangely high level of cultural respect for the time, laying down the foundation of Roman society on existing cultures and incorporating the cultural elite of their own ranks, but if you actually think about it that Roman citizen idea was really just a caste based society and only the elites of the conquered peoples really benefited from it. -Fire Bombings in World War II. Such indiscriminate targeting of enemy civilians for the war effort feels like it should be considered way more heinous than we treat it. The justification is both "They deemed it the most effective way to win the war" and "Everyone else was doing it." But, aren't they horrible arguments? This really bad thing is actually okay because a huge number of people are doing it. And this bad thing is okay because it's pragmatic. It's logic than can be used to justify pretty much anything if we were to seriously try to apply it to most other things. Not that I have a better solution to what the allies should have done instead. -Modern day enemies. If we are more forgiving of bad things for peoples of the past, then why do we not apply the same thing to people of the present? The Jihadi suicide bombing a super market is just as much a product of his culture and time as the Mongol wiping out an entire city that refused to submit. But there's the crux of the issue. You can't stretch this idea too far in either direction. Because we are all products of our cultures. Culture is unavoidable. Even counter culture reactionaries and rebels are a consequence of their culture. Too much culture relativism and you'll find yourself unable to judge any action taken by someone who isn't in the exact same life circumstances as yourself. Too little cultural relativism and you're just going to be a sanctimonious prick espousing every culture that isn't your own is flawed because they were all sexists and racist, or, alternatively, if you judge your own culture harshly too, just become a massive misanthrope writing off humanity in its entirety as horrendous. Well, those were my disparate thoughts on the matter. I'm not expecting any of you to sit here and nod in agreement with everything I've said here. I don't agree with everything I've said. I've just been trying to list examples of things I think are the commonly expected normal view points in our own broader societies and the hypocrisy that comes with them. What do you think? Do you think their is hypocrisy in how our collective view of cultural relativism? Do you think your own opinions are without hypocrisy? Is it okay that we're hypocritical about some stuff? Is it possible to not be hypocritical while also not becoming an extremist in terms of values?

What, you haven't seen the likes of Mike Pence who's calling for a national ban despite how often their ilk they've claimed "states rights"? Here's a few of their response. Sarah Huckabee Sanders Mary Miller Matt Gaetz Karianne Lisonbee Ken Paxton You really want to pretend that folks like this aren't sanctimonious pieces of shit?

But in the situation where a mother is not ready to have her child and they both die due to her being unable to find and starving to death, isn't the ban that forced her to have the child in turn taking 2 lives instead of 1? If that were true then why such bans that force the woman to carry the baby even if it's rape and if it endangers their life? The answer is because they're sanctimonious pieces of shit who think what they believe must be and think the end justifies the means, know they couldn't make it happen via the legislative branch and know they can use the Filibuster to prevent Democrats from doing it. The Supreme Court nomination process was objectively rigged and if you're ok with Republicans packing the courts, you have no right to complain about Democrats doing so if they ever bother to. Personally I'd rather see the Supreme Court abolished if we're resorting to nominating partisan judges. My argument is that I don't buy "pro-lifers" being as concerned about life as they claim to be. They're just pro-birth because they think it's the right choice (as well the other stupid reasoning previously mentioned) and with what little regard they have for the children post-birth, it's nonsense to say they're incapable of accepting the death of an unborn, specially when rape or other stipulations that are harmful exist. "Tend to be" is not an absolute, I'm aware it's a generalization and I'm well aware that you can be Pro-birth and against Capital Punishment. "I believe abortion is murder" should not invalidate a consensus and the generally considered valid reasons even among Republican voters for why an abortion had to happen. Yes. Depending on the translation, the result of the woman's infidelity is indeed the miscarriage. The point is that because of differing translations and the tendency religious people have of picking and choosing what things to follow from religious literature and teachings, it just isn't credible and should stay away from the legislative process. In most cases that does appears to be the case because a lot of people do in fact turn to saying "it's against my religion", "God would want that" or something similar to that Charlie Kirk tweet. You wanna blame someone for making the issue religious, blame the religious people that attached their religion to the issue. And again, if your reasoning is simply as you put it cast your vote as is but the matter is just not that simple and if leaders are elected democratically, you shouldn't just brute-force your opinions/beliefs into law when it's an unpopular stance which just so happens to be what politicians sharing your stance are doing. There's a myriad of scenarios one could give for cases where abortion is and isn't acceptable but to impose the blanket bans that have been going on just says "nuts to that, I'm gonna have my cake and eat it too". I'm a dude so abortion has little to no bearing on me personally and part of my being pro-choice is due to the actions and arguments of "pro-lifers". Most discussions on the subject will have them guilt trip or imply that those of us who are pro-choice are giddy about the prospect of an unborn baby being aborted. We're not, we think it's a bad thing too but we also acknowledge the nuance that comes with differing situations for why the abortion happens and instead of forcing women to give birth and take away her agency to carry on with a life she can manage or carry the burden, we think it's better to address the issues that create the situation in which a pregnancy is unwanted. Banning abortions doesn't get rid of those issues, it's only going to make them worse.

Which alleges that it is intentionally engineered by Jews/Zionists often attributed to being the Democratic party. And yet, the believers of this conspiracy theory are likely to vote Republican, the very same party gutting government investment into anything that serves the public and not military and the rich. Abortion shouldn't be a complicated issue in America but right-wing media like Fox News abuses the Freedom of Speech to frame the conversation in horrible ways. Most people that are pro-choice aren't happy about an abortion happening but we're also not keen on forcing a woman who believes she's not ready for the responsibility to carry that burden and ultimately even if she may be the most intelligent person when it comes to making that decision, she is still the best person to make that decision because it's her life. It gets even worse when it comes to rape cases which, as shown in previous posts, these "pro-life" nuts demand that the woman carry their rapists' child. Hell the Texas law causes problems for miscarriages. Given the way they vote when it comes to child care and adoption related funding, it's easier to argue that "Pro-Life" politicians are really just "Pro-Birth" because they're sanctimonious pieces of shit that demand the woman give birth to the child but then shit on her for her poor life choices and kill any bill that would help her with the child. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of those fuckers vote on banning abortion simply out of spite and wanting less women in the workforce. White birth rates are dropping but it's not necessarily because there's a conspiracy to do it, it's because White voters aren't driving the Republican party into extinction. No seriously, the key to improving most things in this country akin to what's done in Europe is to just end the Republican party and then a new party comes in without the baggage of the Southern Strategy campaign with more to offer than the weak Democrats.

Profanities. I hate every single one of them and wish they would disappear. I also hate the word "overrated," like c'mon people, mainstream shaming isn't cool. It just makes you sound like a sanctimonious buzzkill.

Bravo, you sure showed him. Sanctimonious users like you are a dime dozen. And to actually be on topic, the reddit leak looks alright

When it comes to player pandering, I'd count Gunnthra, who established a permanent emotional bond (that can only be done once per person, so it's more sanctimonious than marriage) on Kiran. Also Sharena, self-proclaimed head of the Kiran Fan Club. There may not be any romantic undertones to her affection for Kiran but that's definitely pandering to have somebody who likes you that much the day you meet them. I'm also definitely a little creeped out by these player-stand-in avatar situations in games. If these games had any element of player choice, they'd know how much of a self-sabotaging jackass I can be. But nope, I'm maxed out paragon good guy who also happens to be Askr's most eligible bachelor. What a tiresome role to be playing.

Of course the Twitter edgelords are being all sanctimonious about this and asking why they're spending so much on a centuries-old piece of architectural art and important part of history

I figured I should probably work on this seeing I want to write for Fates as well. 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? It is an alternate universe retelling with Awakening. Keywords are 'polygamy', 'siblings', and 'reunion' 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? Each child grows normally with the parent in question. Also, the routes I am thinking about for Shigure and Dwyer is the ones where their mother, Azura, dies. More on that soon. The Deeprealms are only mention to introduce Odin, Lazlow, and Selena as well as bring in Justine and Gilbert and their families. Are problematic elements (the curse, the magic throne, the crystal ball, operation tears, Nohr and Hoshido being too black and white, everything Aqua does) going to be addressed? The War between Nohr and Hoshido will indeed be addressed as the children of the two Corrins in this story will probably even out the 'Pick me!' That each of the siblings did. Having two Corrins would either make this solved or will make it worse. Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako are also reincarnations of the Awakening tacticians, Gilbert and Justine. Are there any themes to be communicated over each route? 'Conquest' would communicate the love Rioci/Ryoki has for Niles, Peri, and Scarlet, and how he is conflicted about Scarlet's choice to fight for Hoshido. He would hopefully be more assertive on his mercifulness and King Garon himself would only listen because Rioci/Ryoki is a chip off his adoptive father with the amount of mistresses he has. Hans only spares her life the same way Clopin spares Pierre the poet's life in the Hunchback of Notre Dame - so Esmeralda (or in this case, Rioci/Ryoki) marries Pierre(Scarlet). This could also actually communicate how Garon was before he was goop-man (something that won't happen in this one because that plot-point was pretty disappointing). Miaco/Miyako meanwhile is on the side of Hoshido. As Ryoma pushes her to forgive herself for abandoning her family in Nohr (including her actual twin brother, Rioci/Ryoki), Miaco/Miyako seeked asylum by her affairs with Izana and Yukimura, who both have mixed feelings on 'sharing' the princess of Hoshido's attention. Ryoma would be a concerned older brother but in the sanctimonious way that nobody liked Hoshido for in the first place. He would hate that Miaco/Miyako chose this path. The choices that Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako make in their decision to marry results in the siblings following suit as well as Siegbert (marrying Sophie) Forrest (marrying Soleil and Rhajat), Shiro (Caeldori) and Kiragi (Percy[?]) have a polygamous relationship despite some of them marrying Hoshidans for it. Percy himself is also struggling as his sense of justice that he grew up sharing with his father could shatter because his love for Soleil, Ophelia, Kiragi, and Velouria. Ophelia is scared for her life as she is hiding her own relationship with Shigure and Dwyer. Xander is marrying Nyx but is having an affair with Hinoka. Ryoma marries Orochi but holds feelings for Camilla that conflict with his view on how relationships SHOULD work. Elise loves Odin but at the same time, she wants to get to know Takumi (who is married to Oboro) more. Leo and Sakura's relationship gets added in with Mozu (who married Hayato) in the mix. And finally, Camilla herself is conflicted because she wants to practice what she preaches to Lazlow but everytime she sees Ryoma, her heart begins to flutter (and she loves Rioci/Ryoki as well but that relationship won't go anywhere). What is the overall direction and "point" of each route? Conquest focuses on how Nohr can be a better place if Corrin opens his mouth more to object his father more and make Garon known for what he was as a father to the other siblings. Birthright focuses on that as well, changing Ryoma's execution of his ideology in the process. Add a thing revealing Gilbert and Justine and you have a long story about how come Nohr and Hoshido can come to an understanding with love. Wait... 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? Once again - No goop Monster What is Kamui all about (background, personality, abilities)? Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako are twins born under Mikoto. They are the descendants of Anankos, much like how their reincarnations were vessels to Grima. What is Aqua all about (personality, role in the plot)? Azura helps for a short amount of time maintain both parties, even marrying the siblings off to their loved ones (and blessing their children). However, she dies off to make room for Jakob's part in the story (a hurt butler that could not persuade Miaco/Miyako to stay in Nohr). What are the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings all about (personalities, roles in the plot)? Ryoma would have the most screen time, being the main conflict that Miaco/Miyako has. He would frown upon Miaco/Miyako for stooping to a Nohrian level. Camilla is Ryoma's Nohrian female counterpart but only in a small level. She would want to be a part of Rioci/Ryoki's life but she would ultimately push herself away because of her marriage to Lazlow. What is Garon, Mikoto, Lilith or any other important character all about? Garon is the antagonist in Rioci/Ryoki's story, not being a goop monster but becoming more and more corrupt with Iago's influence. Mikoto is a mother of twin dragons, which scares many people in Hoshido. Her relationship with Anankos and Sumeragi also comes into play for Miaco/Miyako's relationship between Yukimura (who loved her) and Izana. Lilith is going to be cut out. What is Hydra all about (role in the plot)? Anankos and Sumeragi actually met and while conflicted by Mikoto's decision to marry them both also influence Anankos to eventually become Hydra, angry by Mikoto's choice. Arrete is one of Garon's mistresses further pointing to Garon approving of Rioci/Ryoki marrying Niles, Kaze's wife, Peri, and Scarlet. What changes will be made to minor characters? Kaze shares Peri with Rioci/Ryoki for a while, Peri bringing Midori into the story. However, he will die because he failed to communicate with Miaco/Miyako. Jakob marries Azura and brings Shigure and Dwyer into the world, Ophelia marrying the two. When Azura dies, Jakob attempts suicide with a similar thought process but Rioci/Ryoki stopping him. 4. What notable changes would you make to the setting? Polygamy plays a strong role in this as power players struggle with this. While it is the downfall to Mikoto and Garon's character, it starts a revolution with their children. What ideas do you have for world building? The religion of Hoshido. Why are they sanctimonious? What kind of history does this continent have? I am still thinking on this. What is the balance of natural and supernaturual elements? Deeprealms don't age people and therefore there is no reason for abandonment. So the children all grow at the same age. Are the Faceless and invisible enemies in your story? They are a minor role. Mainly because they would invade Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako's meeting place - Their small haildom of Rim Elm. They would come with Gilbert and Justine out of the Deeprealms. 5. Do any characters die? Azura and Kaze do indeed die. This leaves Midori with Rioci/Ryoki as a father and Shigure and Dwyer are motherless. 6. Do you introduce any new characters? Awakening characters - Justine's suitors (Virion, Yen'fay, and Priam) and Gilbert's brides (Tiki and Say'ri.) Also, both Corrins and Robins will have children. Luckily they won't come up unless asked, 7. Are any characters going to be cut? Lilith. There is probably going to be more but that depends on their role in the story. TL;DR I want to make an Anthology series but I am trying to connect it somehow.

More Authors [spoiler=Nintendoentersoft] 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? I intend to rewrite all three routes to edit flaws with the general story and characters, but my main focus is the Revelations route (Invisible kingdom sounds a bit better). It might be a bit iffy, but I wanna include the events of the other two routes as a non canon event one of the key characters witness somehow. 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? I'd probably let the war drag on for a bit longer before Hoshido and Nohr team up and I'll have Touma be a much more proactive antagonistic force. Specific parts of Birthrights plot would change if needed and for Conquest, I intend to have Garon strictly place Kamui under Marx/Camilla's command, but they use this authority to grant Kamui some leeway to explain why Kamui is essentially a glorified freelancer in Conquest rather than little more than a pawn as he should have been. In addition, I plan on having more antecedent actions to gray out the general situation of the plot and the Dragon's Vein be an ability that the Hoshidan and Nohr royal family can use with great difficulty (Hoshido uses it defensively and Nohr is more offensive), but those related to or controlled by Hydra can use it easily and with greater power. -Are problematic elements (the curse, the magic throne, the crystal ball, operation tears, Nohr and Hoshido being too black and white, everything Aqua does (lol) going to be addressed? I could probably inject a boatload of skepticism into characters and have the same effect as the curse, so the curse would be removed entirely. I could probably replace the magic throne with a rite of ascension ritual both kingdoms practice which involve something akin to the magic mirror wielded by Li Jing in Journey to the West (It's hard to explain in short words). I originally wanted the crystal ball to be the thing a key character uses to glimpse what happens if Kamui takes the Nohr/Hoshido path, but I think a dream/vision/hallucination would work better here, I'm not sure. IDK what OP means by operation tears. Nohr and Hoshido would basically be different sides of the same coin, so they will have equally shady parts of their country, just not in the same way. As for Aqua, I'll see if I can have her keep her plot relevance and not be stupid at the same time. -Are there to be any themes communicated through each route? Appearance vs Reality, isolation, family are some I'm toying around with right now -What is the overall direction and "point" of each route? Like I stated previously, the "point" is to iron out flaws in the official narrative, even if it means rewriting general plot direction. The overall direction is going to be bittersweet based on what I've got in my mind so far. 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? I'd either take the edge off of some extreme character traits or sharpen others on top of giving some characters different ones as well as giving everyone a bit more in the realm of other interests. -What is Kamui all about (Background, personality, abilities) Aside from having it so that Kamui isn't related to any of the characters by blood (except maybe Lilith) and Nohr having a forceful memory block spell put on him, I'm not changing much about his background. Kamui is properly trained in court etiquette, but he only uses that in court. His real personality is to be very cold and aloof with those not close to him (curt responses, forceful way of speaking etc.) due to a built up resent towards other people being free to travel as they please while he couldn't and this has resulted in him developing a sense of humor that is formed on being sadistic and expressed in a sarcastic manner along with being naturally distrustful of others. However, he greatly appreciates those who would spend time with him in his solitary confinement in Krakenburg and thus has a close bond with his siblings and his main servants (Jakob, Gunther, Felicia, Lilith and Flora). His solitary confinement combined with being very rarely let out of Krakenburg leads him to be extremely explorative and his relative lack of contacts with those his age leads him to further have a lack of social skills in conjunction with his personality (which would explain why he thinks Fire Emblem amie is a good idea). After spending time in Hoshido, his resent is gradually dulled and his distrust changes to healthy skepticism. He is trained in sword fighting by Marx and in strategy by Leon and is a fast learner which helps him quickly master his dragon transformation when he acquires them, however while he is methodical in combat while human, his attacks are more vicious in dragon form due to regressed brain functions. -What is Aqua about (personality, role in plot) Background is unchanged. Personality: She is not related to Kamui and she has a healthier personality than Kamui as even though she isn't free to leave the palace as she pleases, she can travel through the entirety of the Hoshido palace while Kamui is stuck in a specific area of Krakenburg and does not resent Hoshido as a result and sees the good in both countries. She is an idealist and an optimist who dreams of peaceful coexistence, not only between Hoshido and Nohr, but between all people and as such while she isn't indiscriminately friendly, she does remain approachable. She has a natural talent for memorizing songs and singing as she remembered songs used to control dragons in Touma ever since she was a child, she developed her dancing abilities as a method to cope with the feeling of uselessness she gains as a result of knowing the threat Touma poses and the lack of a response from either Mikoto or other officials as it allows her to escape into the music. She prefers to solve matters diplomatically, having learned skills from Yukimura, however she understands that force may be required and as a result she has taught herself how to fight combining dancing and fighting with a lance under guidance from Hinoka. She lacks a strategic and tactical mindset. Likes being close to nature and water. Role in plot: She had a brief encounter with Kamui on the outset of the story and shortly after officially meeting him in Hoshido, she begins having a dream/hallucination about the Birthright and Conquest paths and convinces Kamui not to take sides in the upcoming war and unite both countries against Touma after gaining his trust (I'm also going to be extending the time Kamui spends in Hoshido prior to the assassination). To that end she leads Kamui into Touma to gain information. What are the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings like (personalities, role in plot) Not much will change except Marx secretly sends Pieri and Lazwald to keep an eye on his siblings and begins to suffer an existential crisis, Camilla copes with negativity by drinking and treating Kamui with unconventional affections (even more so than in the game), but never let's the drinking dull her combat skills, Leon has a healthy rivalry with Kamui and Elise's cheer is at times artificial to keep the mood up and hide her worries. Ryoma is strongly anti-Nohr and his Honor Code can work against him,Hinoka has next to no sense of humor or diplomatic skill and is the strongest warrior of the Hoshidan siblings, Takumi has a dangerous jealousy streak and ego and initially is manipulated by Hydra due to this and Sakura's personality can turn on a dime. What is Garon, Mikoto, Lilith and other major characters about? Garon is resurrected and controlled by Hydra rather than being a slime thing, Mikoto stays the same, Lilith I'm not too sure how to giver her additional content yet, but she will remain Kamui's half sister. What is Hydra all about (role in plot)? This version is much more proactive about destroying Hoshido and Nohr, forcing those he controls on both sides to engage in highly destructive strategies and is a much more powerful necromancer since he can grant his resurrected puppets control over the Dragon's Vein as well as making them stronger than they were alive. However he cannot grant all of his resurrected puppets control over the Dragon's Vein, so he only grants it to the strongest ones he resurrects. He can also manipulate extremely strong negative emotions (hate, greed etc.) to bend those people to his will when they are alive. In a nutshell, he is a cross between Darkseid and Nekron, prefers to let others do the dirty work, but is extremely powerful himself. What significant change will you make to the setting? The tensions will be more similar to the Cold War where both countries are ready for war, both countries have some strained diplomatic ties and both went through a nearly catastrophic crisis (Kamui and Aqua's capture) and both had a war that didn't go well (Chevalier for Nohr, Kouga for Hoshido) Do any characters die? Yes Will you be adding new characters? Most likely not Are any characters going to be cut Heavily edited, but not outright removed if I can help it. [spoiler=Metal Flash] 1: All three 2: Aqua is not a child of Garon, Kamui is not as naive, Camilla`s doting is on her younger siblings in general, the Hoshidan throne will be a normal throne, Garon is the real one 3: Kamui is the third born child in the Hoshidan royal familly, raised in Nohr. Idealistic, he would prefer to not have any pointless deaths happen and simply wishes the war will end. He doesn`t wish to hurt his siblings on either side, but ends up doing so regardless. Regardless of the path chosen, he learns more of the ways of the world. Main character in all routes Aqua is the daughter of the leader of the water tribe in Nohr. She is kind and knows a lot about Nohr, but also tends to shoulder everything herself. She finds Kamui`s kindness odd for a Nohrian royal, though doesn`t complain. Aqua can also be quite blunt, regardless of who she`s talking to. Appears from time to time. Ruyoma is more aware of Kamui being raised by the enemy. He also refuses to believe that good people exist in Nohr, untill he meets Crimson. Hinoka feels distant from Sakura and Takumi, despite spending a lot of time with them. Camilla dotes on her younger siblings, but can also be overprotective. She doesn`t teach Elise how to use tomes, always finding an excuse not to. She is ruthless towards her enemies, so Elise, Kamui and Leon can be spared of taking a life. Elise feels useless compared to her siblings, as she can`t fight. She also sees the retainers more than anyone else, as they are usually asked to check on her. They all make frequent appearnces. Garon is strict, but still treats his children, even Kamui, like family. He wants to win the war so Nohr can get the suplies they need. No plans for Hydra yet. Lilith is a maid that works in the Nohrain royal family. Hoshidan retainers suspect Kamui more. 4: Nothing here for the moment. 5: Characters do die, though not sure which yet. 6: One, maybe two, though I will mostly expand on existing characters. 7: Most of the children, some Touma exclusive characters. [spoiler=Skywolfe] 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? Solely Invisible Kingdom at the moment for a start-to-finish fanfiction. It's going to be incredibly difficult, especially since I tried my hand at an Awakening re-telling, and that froze out on me before I even reached the timeskip. But, in my defence, Fates is going to be different since I'm the sole author involved in the project... So, in full, I'm doing all three routes, but only Invisible Kingdom is going to see a full overhaul. Conquest and Birthright will see a few tweaks here and there for oneshot or two-shot purposes, nothing substantial, since I prefer to focus all my creative power on one thing rather than a huge assortment of things at a time. 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? Are problematic elements (the curse, the magic throne, the crystal ball, operation tears, Nohr and Hoshido being too black and white, everything Aqua does) going to be addressed? The curse is going to stay the same, but there will be loopholes I plan to exploit, and I plan to take the curse to it's logical extreme rather than gloss over the fact that it cannot be spoken about. Trust issues abound. The crystal ball I may just write out. Operation tears, perhaps... Nohr and Hoshido are both going into straight gray territory, and all of the dirty laundry is going to be hung out for everyone to see, and it's not about to be a pretty experience. Are there any themes to be communicated over each route? The problem with incestuous implications and the detrimental effect that can have on a person's psyche is definitely about to be thrown repeatedly into everybody's face. Particularly with my Kamuis, who both were in love with their future spouses long before the reveal was made. There was no sudden, "By the way, we're not siblings, so I love you!" thing going on. It was well-established, it was emotionally breaking, and there was much angst abound for all four parties. Loyalty is another theme to be explored, but probably not in the way that's meant to be thought of. It's less "loyalty to all" and more "loyalty to one" that's going to be a driving point of some parts of Conquest, especially with my male Kamui, who only would return to Nohr for Camilla rather than for any other reason. My female Kamui might have similar problems concerning Marx. Conflicting loyalties and guilt is another theme that will reach over all three routes, as well as a lack of closure for Birthright and Conquest. What is the overall direction and "point" of each route? Birthright is essentially a trainwreck from start to finish, and is meant to be the "worst of the three routes" that can be taken. The theory of recurring worlds (not entirely a Goundhog Day Loop, but more of a vague, repeating trial) is something I intend to use to its fullest effect, with Birthright always having the worst conclusion and emotional impact on the characters. (Including the Hoshidan siblings.) Conquest is a little bit better, but the complete and utter emptiness of the "victory" makes it not too better than Birthright despite the "happy ending" the Kamuis are granted by being able to live with their spouses and children at the end of the war. Invisible Kingdom is a happy ending outright, but it's not an ending that didn't come without sacrifice, a lot of hard work, and setbacks atop of setbacks. 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? What is Kamui all about (background, personality, abilities)? Eve and Aidan are fraternal twins who were once quite close (default appearances, as I like the look, and they're meant to be twins anyhow), but Eve suffers from asthma and a weak constitution that left her frequently holed up alone in the sickbed, where she was subjected to archaic and frequently damaging healing methods by the Nohrian stave-wielders. Leeching, cupping, and smoke was used to "cure" her, and she was told that she would die young, likely in bed, gasping for breath rather than finding a glorious end on the battlefield. The closeness of mortality with her left her completely and utterly fearless and reckless on the battlefield, but her good heart and her desire for peace made more of a pacifist out of her than what her combat abilities could allow her to reach if she went all-out. Eve admired Marx from the very outset, and this brotherly worship turned into genuine love during puberty, something that scared her senseless and left her closing herself off from Marx in an attempt to stunt her growing feelings for him. She's a maternal sort who loves very easily, and she desires to see peace between Nohr and Hoshido more than anything, and is willing to pay any personal price she must to see it done. In terms of physical abilities, she's frailer than she should be as a soldier, but she's incredibly fast, and very strong when she allows herself to fight at her maximum potential, but she rarely does due to her dislike of violence, even in self-defence. She also has a strong dislike for her dragon form at the outset due to hurting Aqua, but her familiarity with herself and her desire to protect leaves her with an almost artistic control of her draconic traits at the endgame. Due to her empathetic nature, she's quite good at inspiring her comrades or talking down an enemy, but she's also extremely skilled at breaking apart a person emotionally because of her ability to read them well. It's an ability she uses very infrequently, but she's not afraid to use it at need. She adored pegasi, had a strong affinity for Hoshidan culture when she was introduced to it, but she views herself as a Nohrian through and through, even though her true heritage defies her belief. Aidan, by contrast, seems to be a cold, mechanical, unreachable man. Iago began beating him via whippings as a young boy when he accidentally made it seem like he had done something bad in Leon's place, and the beatings continued well into his adulthood. He became a patsy for his siblings' mistakes and transgressions, and while he held no blame for them and took pride in being a "protector", the beatings left him extremely emotionally broken and withdrawn. He suffers from severe PTSD and self-worth issues, as well as an extreme aversion to physical contact of any form. He's plagued with nightmares that leave him almost feral upon awakening, and takes great pains to separate himself from friends and family and strangers alike to keep them from harm in case he lashes out unintentionally. His facade of being cold and mechanical is difficult to penetrate, and he reasons that if he's disliked, then no one will feel guilt or pain if they discover about his beatings. This led to him withdrawing from Eve, as well as many others in his teenage and adulthood years, and he has a very bleak outlook on both the world and himself due to it. He has no love for Nohr whatsoever, though he is extremely fond and caring, in his own way, for his siblings. His love for Camilla defines him, though, like Eve, he spent many years purposefully isolating himself from Camilla in a desperate attempt to keep his feelings hidden and un-acted upon. He's a very peceptive, if very literal man who rarely smiles or shows emotion, and he's extremely tough in terms of physicality and combat prowess. He has a fondness for wyverns, an academic interest in culture and the outside world as a whole, and has a fierce wanderlust that he hopes to satisfy when peace comes. What is Aqua all about (personality, role in the plot)?Aqua is more of a side-character than a main character in this plot, but her friendship with the twins remains something substantial. Eve comes to view her as another sister, and she suffers from much guilt for "robbing" her of her birthright in Nohr. Aidan is far more ambivalent, but, in his own way, he begins to view Aqua as a true companion once he begins to trust her. Unlike Eve, he has no guilt for replacing her in Nohr, and believes that their kidnapping left him able to suffer in her place, and she was safe and mostly content in Mikoto's care in Hoshido, something that does make him happy underneath it all. Aqua, in turn, comes to bond fiercely with both twins, and in particular has a very strong relationship with Eve. Her role in the plot remains mostly unchanged, though her blunt nature, especially in Birthright, causes a bit of tension between her and Aidan in particular when she brings up his betrayal of Camilla to him. Aidan becomes rather antagonistic in Birthright due to her challenging of his inner desires versus his decision to remain with Hoshido, and the two do not mend fences for almost the entirety of the route. What are the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings all about (personalities, roles in the plot)?Overall, all the siblings are given larger roles and more focus, though the Nohrian cast will see more focus over the Hoshidan ones. The concubine wars and their psychological toll on the siblings as a whole is a very important facet that I intend to explore at length, especially in terms of the elder siblings. However, Camilla and Marx are admittedly the main focus of character development and importance, especially due to their relationship with the twins. Camilla, in particular shares an equal weight for both Eve and Aidan's character development, due to her maternal surrogacy with Eve, and her romantic relationship with Aidan. Camilla discovered Aidan's beatings in their teens, and took it upon herself to become his healer as he did not wish for any of their other siblings to know, and there was an extreme amount of sexual and romantic tension between the two due to the secrecy of their meetings and the rather intimate affair of her treating his wounds. She, like Aidan, was aware quite early of the nature of her feelings, and, like Marx, had a suspicion that the twins were not truly related to her by blood, but her fear of being wrong, as well as breaking the fragile trust Aidan had in her, led her to remaining silent on her thoughts. This causes her much guilt after the reveal, though she is admittedly just as relieved to know that her love for Aidan was not as "wrong" as she had tried to convince herself it was, and she and Aidan make the transition far more seamlessly from "siblings" to "lovers". Marx, in contrast, both by plot and personality, has more difficulty overall, and his relationship with Eve is tumultuous in many respects, especially in Birthright and Invisible Kingdom. Like Camilla, he was aware of his attraction to Eve, but her withdrawal from him was confusing and difficult for him to stomach when he watched her being so close and openly demonstrative with the rest of his siblings. His belief of Eve and Aidan's betrayal (especially in Invisible Kingdom) is extremely damaging to Eve's psyche, and she suffers an emotional breakdown due to his dismissal of her. It is a difficult hurdle for the two to overcome when Marx joins up with their forces, and Marx is overwhelmed with guilt for hurting Eve so deeply, but she holds no blame against him, and rationalizes his love and loyalty to Garon was right of him, and she was hurting him just as deeply as he was hurting her with her decision to turn her back on him. The confrontation between Eve and Marx in Birhright that leads to the death of him and Elise leaves Eve completely shattered, and her only goal from then on is to put a stop to Garon and end the war. She never recovers from Marx's death (and she is the one to kill him, as she views it as her personal responsibility due to her love for him), and while Aidan is allowed a bittersweet ending in terms of reconciling with Camilla and living out the rest of his days with her, Eve leaves the world outright for the Outrealms, travelling from world to world in penace for her sins. What is Garon, Mikoto, Lilith or any other important character all about?Garon is an imbodiment of fear for Eve, and one of loathing and mixed emotions for Aidan. Mikoto is a maternal figure that Aidan never had and one that he immediately wishes to keep, and Eve struggles with her conflicting feelings for Mikoto as her true mother, and Camilla, who was a mixture of sibling and mother to her all throughout her youth. Garon, in general however, is viewed through many different eyes, and especially with the Nohrian siblings, it will be explored how his hold on their loyalty is built on far more than fear. I am of the belief that the Nohrian siblings, (barring Elise due to her age), all display eerily accurate traits of victims of extreme psychological familial abuse, and their emotionally breaking experiences in the concubine wars have made their loyalty to Garon far more multi-faceted than it initially appears, and I am hoping to delve deeply into that. What is Hydra all about (role in the plot)? His role will remain mostly the same. What changes will be made to minor characters? Iago is far more of an antagonist than he was initially, especially in concern with the twins. 4. What notable changes would you make to the setting? What ideas do you have for world building? As mentoned before, Nohr's history is going to be analyzed intensely. Hoshido and Nohr's contrast in terms of appearance, history, culture is also going to be rather important. What kind of history does this continent have? Mostly sticking to whatever canon is given, with a few additions here and there, but nothing too extensive. What is the balance of natural and supernatural elements? It's fantasy/ancient history, so both elements are going to be of equal weight... But, in terms of things like healing, I like a good mixture of staff use and other archaic methods that were used in the treatment of asthma. Are the Faceless and invisible enemies in your story? Yes. 5. Do any characters die? Not beyond canon's need. 6. Do you introduce any new characters? There will be mention of the half-siblings that were killed in the concubine wars, and the mothers of Leon, Elise, and Camilla may or may not make appearances, but they will most certainly have a role in fleshing out characterization. 7. Are any characters going to be cut? Not outright cut, but their roles may be lessened or lengthened depending on need. [spoiler=Yari] FE Fates Fan Fiction Survey 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? I originally planned on doing an amalgation of all three together but now I'm doing an amalgation of Hoshido and Nohr and later I'll write a second separate fic based on the third path. 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? The basic ideas of the plot are very similar but there will be many changes on how it plays out and how the characters react to different events. Are problematic elements (the curse, the magic throne, the crystal ball, operation tears, Nohr and Hoshido being too black and white, everything Aqua does) going to be addressed? Yes. The curse is no longer a thing, the crystal ball is a thing but it has been changed to better fit the story, operation tears has been drastically changed, the whole black and white thing is addressed throughout the story and Aqua's ideas and plans will also be addressed. Are there any themes to be communicated over each route? Hoshido is about morality and justice while Nohr is about loyalty to your duty and the ones you grew up with. The Invisible Kingdom is about idealism, trying to fix everything and it's the hardest path. What is the overall direction and "point" of each route? This is hard to answer but I like thinking that the "point" of the story itself is about growing as a person and that each path shows it differently. 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? It's mostly tiny things more centrered around the interactions between characters than anything and some headcanons showing up here and there. But certain character like Camilla had very big changes on certain aspects of their personality. What is Kamui all about (background, personality, abilities)? My story has two Kamuis. The female one is called Izumi and the male one is Tatsuo, they're fraternal twins who both share the ability to turn into dragons, have poor eyesight so both wear glasses and by wearing I mean Marx and Camilla try to make them wear the glasses but the glasses always end up abandoned in some random place, they mostly use their sense of smell and touch to understand the world around them, they have an affinity with water and animals, they also have some strange habits due to their dragon powers and they also have overly long tongues.​ Izumi is a serious looking young girl that doesn't like showing emotions but has dreams of becoming a heroine, she's a bit of a kuudere who's, most of the time, in control of her emotions she knows how wield swords and axes in the begining of the story. Tatsuo is a kind boy who is a bit of a doormat and has a huge crush on Zero but learns how to become more assertive in the begining of the story he knows how to wield lances and swords. What is Aqua all about (personality, role in the plot)?What are the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings all about (personalities, roles in the plot)? Aqua didn't change a lot in personality but she is a lot less misterious for the sake of being misterious, neither did most of the siblings I just made their personalities more "deep" in a way by adding some headcanons I have to their overall personality I suck at explaning things. The exception is Camilla she is a lot less "Kamui" obssessed and more very protective of her family, especially her younger siblings, due to trauma caused by the concubine wars. The sisters get their own holy weapons and a bigger part in the story. What is Garon, Mikoto, Lilith or any other important character all about? Garon is the real deal not a fake blob monster, he's a good father to his children and he became more desperate and ruthless because of how Nohr began to decline to a worst state than before and the death ofhis children and women he loved. Mikoto doesn't change a lot in personality in her living apperances but more is found out about her after her death. Lilith is a young (by her species standarts) dragon who ended up with the group by "accident". Shenmei was a close friend of Mikoto instead of her sister and was Garon's second wife. What is Hydra all about (role in the plot)? He's not a evil mad dragon but he lost most of the hope he had in humanity. Izumi and Tatsuo have draconic powers because of a blessing given by him to Mikoto. What changes will be made to minor characters? The Awakening trio has different hair colors based on the fathers I had for them in Awakening. Pieri changed in a way that she isn't a crazy servant killer she's still crazy but she isn't always killing servants even if she doesn't like them at all. Eponine is the adopted child of Zero and Tatsou, she was a street rat orphan who lost her parents in the war. Felicia is less clumsy and her sister Flora has more supports. 4. What notable changes would you make to the setting? Not much really. Besides some world building here and there the environments of the countries haven't changed too much. What ideas do you have for world building? Hoshido is an almost heavenly place. Almost being a key word. They have a very strick norms in their society and the people can be flat out racist towards Nohrians, they also have some dirt buried under their heavenly façade. Nohr has a large army and while the nobility and other wealthier classes have a good live the great part of the population that is made of peasants lives in misery. What kind of history does this continent have? Hoshido is a place where there have been bloody war and is overall a very isolated country but they've always had excelent crops. Nohr has a story of wealthy nobility but is place where there are barely any places for crops to grow. What is the balance of natural and supernaturual elements? A bit of both. I like supernatural elements in stories so I had to add them to it. Are the Faceless and invisible enemies in your story? Yup. 5. Do any characters die? Besides Mikoto and the ones who are dead already? No. No one dies, I mean someone might die if I feel like it fits the story but for now no one dies. 6. Do you introduce any new characters? No as of right now. 7. Are any characters going to be cut? Nope. [spoiler=dtmahanen101] 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? I'm going to mainly focus on the Revelations storyline. However, to make Corrin not seem like a total spoiled brat when turning her siblings down, I'll most likely put some sort of "flash-forward" scene, potentially involving dreams, as that's kind of a big part of Corrin's MO, to give her hints about what happens on both routes. 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? Are problematic elements (the curse, the magic throne, the crystal ball, operation tears, Nohr and Hoshido being too black and white, everything Aqua does) going to be addressed? The curse is stupid, and I don't like it, so it's gone. The magic throne is a little iffy, so I don't think I'm gonna deal with it. The crystal ball and Operation Tears don't apply to Revelations, so they're not relevant to my story, at least as of now. AND AZURA IS NOT GONNA BE AN EXPOSITION MACHINE! THAT'S STUPID! The stuff that happened to her in Nohr won't go away, but she won't be all-knowing about Valla. Also, the children. I've got an interesting idea for how to incorporate them into the story that can only happen because I'm doing Revelations only. But I don't want to spoil it here. Oh, and of course Hoshido and Nohr aren't gonna be as black and white. More details to come in further questions. Are there any themes to be communicated over each route? Taking responsibility for your actions, learning how to compromise and work with others, and acceptance. This is stuff that doesn't just apply to Corrin, but every. Single. Royal. It's so incredibly important to these characters and their growth as people that I just found it impossible to ignore. What is the overall direction and "point" of each route? The group's gonna come together, they'll quarrel, but they'll be able to work together by the end. Pretty similar to the game itself, but I'm gonna take some more time to get there. I feel it goes too fast in the game, so I'm gonna take my sweet time. 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? What is Kamui all about (background, personality, abilities)?Corrin was captured when she was five. Macbeth attempted to wipe her memories, but some remain, and come to her in periodic dreams/nightmares. Because she is subconsciously aware that she isn't actually here of her own free will, she can't take everything her "father" says to her in absolute faith, and is thus a little bit unstable, as she doesn't fully trust anyone except her siblings. However, she still loves Garon, even if she doesn't fully trust him, as he's the only father figure she really remembers, other than maybe Gunter and Xander. She has an incredible sense of smell, and can partially transform in a similar fashion to her fighting style in Smash. Personality-wise, she's very naive and a bit mischievous (if you can earn her trust). She finds it incredibly hard to trust people. What is Aqua all about (personality, role in the plot)?Azura may be one the most cynical people on the planet. Due to her incredibly traumatic experiences while living in Nohr (not to mention the fact that she remembers being kidnapped - twice), she's grown jaded, and maybe even a little hateful. Sure, the Hoshidan royal family treats her with respect, but she doesn't feel truly accepted. The rest of Hoshido treats her with scorn. She's incredibly lonely most of the time. The only happy memory she has since she and her family were taken from Valla was when she tried to run away from Hoshido, and encountered a group of Youko kits, including a boy named Kaden. She serves as a reluctant ally to Corrin throughout the journey, but doesn't know anything about Anakos or the first dragons. The Sages tell the two that stuff. What are the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings all about (personalities, roles in the plot)? I'm only going to list the ones who will undergo massive changes. As such, I'm not going to mention Takumi, Sakura, or Elise (she'll be a bit more mature, but overall I'm okay with her character. ​​​​​​​- Ryoma is relatively similar to his in-game counterpart, but maybe a bit more hateful toward Nohr due to anti-Nohr propaganda that had been bashed into his skull his entire life. Bushido is his entire life, so he can't comprehend why anyone would back down from a fight, as it's dishonorable in his eyes. - Hinoka was very, very close to Corrin when they were younger. In fact, she was there when Corrin got her scar across her nose. She was enraged when Corrin was taken from Hoshido, but is not necessarily as anti-Nohr as her older brother. She just wants her sister back. Because of this, she's actually going to join the party much earlier than she does in-game. - Xander can make his own decisions. He's not blindly loyal to Garon like he is in-game, and grows suspicious of sketchy stuff going on in Nohr much more quickly. - Camilla isn't creepy. Yeah, she dotes on Corrin, but she dotes on everyone. She also HATES her armor, as it's inconvenient as hell, but she can't change it, as it was issued to her by Macbeth, and she couldn't refuse. (This attitude toward Nohrian armor is shared by Elise, who hates fighting in high-heels and a dress.) - Leo is Corrin's best friend in Nohr. Even though he's still really cocky and can be very blunt, and even rude, Corrin appreciates this, as at least he's honest. He's the only one who knows the content of Corrin's dreams, and wants to figure out what they mean along with her. He sleeps in the room next to her, and has taught Corrin Morse Code so he can calm her down after a nightmare without having to leave his bed. By the way, I'm not setting these two up to get married. They're just really good friends. What is Garon, Mikoto, Lilith or any other important character all about?- Mikoto is largely the same. She ISN'T, however, the sister of Arete. Rather, Valla's power system actually functions similarly to the Roman Republic: there are two rulers, like the Roman consuls, and both Arete's and Mikoto's families held power. When Anakos attacked Valla, Arete's family stood their ground, while Mikoto's fled (at the behest of Arete so that at least one family of Vallian royalty would survive). She still dies early on. - Garon is almost entirely different. He was never replaced by a doppelganger sludge-being, but was rather manipulated by Macbeth (he's gonna be my main baddie). He's a brutal man who's hard on his kids, but he is still a very loving father. He HATED the fact that the Concubine Wars occurred because he loved all of his women equally (as weird as that is to hear). When Elise was born, and the concubines were ready to tear each other to shreds, he put his foot down, banished them all, and tried to raise his kids on his own. His kidnapping of Corrin was not malicious in nature, but rather because he couldn't bear to see anyone orphaned, even his enemy's child. In essence, he's not actually evil. He tries to maintain a good relationship with his children, which includes Corrin, who he views as his own child. (The decision to memory-wipe Corrin was Macbeth's idea, but he readily agreed.) He doesn't like Macbeth, but acknowledges his tactical genius. He wants the best for his country, and is willing to go to absurd lengths to make sure it endures, but he is not beyond reason. What is Hydra all about (role in the plot)? As soon as Corrin gains full access to her draconic abilities, Anakos senses her, and realizes that this is the only person who has the strength to kill him. As such, he uses any means he can, including manipulating Macbeth, summoning shadow-troops, and even sending Corrin some nasty nightmares, to make sure she either never finds him or dies. What changes will be made to minor characters? The one thing I know for sure is that the Awakening Trio is not only there, but still refer to themselves, at least in private, by their real names. Since the curse doesn't exist, the only reason that they don't tell anyone where they're from is because they're worried people will call them crazy. Odin/Owain and Selena/Severa are in an intimate relationship by now. 4. What notable changes would you make to the setting? What ideas do you have for world building?I gotta think about this one. What kind of history does this continent have? Similar to the games. What is the balance of natural and supernaturual elements? Similar to the games. Shadow troops are a thing, the sages are still there, but many of the enchanted objects, such as the magic throne, are gone. Yatogami (THE FULL NAME IS NOT HARD TO PRONOUNCE, IS!!!) is still a thing, though, and the chainsaw aspect of it is accessible from the beginning. However, Corrin is gonna fight more with her draconic abilities rather than using her sword. Are the Faceless and invisible enemies in your story?Yes, and the Faceless are still mutated from Macbeth's subjects. Since Macbeth is now the main antagonist, they're gonna be more common. 5. Do any characters die? Well, Mikoto dies. Duh. But someone else will also kick the bucket when the whole party goes to Valla. Other than that...not really. 6. Do you introduce any new characters? No. 7. Are any characters going to be cut? No characters were cut in the making of this fic. [spoiler=MCProductions] All three routes are one massive narrative, starting with Conquest, then Birthright, Finally Revelations. Hoshido's and Nohr's backstories are also changed to where they used to be one country, the country my male Awakening Avatar was born in. He's literally Solid Snake in my headcanon world. The pseudo US, but not the US, just a stand in with similar values and backstory, invaded Ylisse sometime after Awakening and was defeated and split into two countries, Hoshido and Nohr. Nohr is led by the Exalted bloodline, and descends from my female Awakening Avatar and Chrom thanks to Morgan. Hoshido is led by my male Awakening Avatar's daughter Tiki!Morgan, and the Hoshidan royals are all her descendants. Valla is basically Outer Heaven from MGS, but without Big Boss, and the added goal of reuniting Hoshido and Nohr. Valla intends to achieve both the original goal of Outer Heaven, and reunite Hoshido and Nohr into one by manipulating them into war. They succeed, obviously, in starting the war thru basically making a cold war happen in Hoshido and Nohr thru creating a rift between my Awakening avatar's which inadvertently causes a conflict between Ylisse and Chorn Sin,How do you spell Say Ri's home country, which results in the death of my male Awakening avatar, the kidnapping of both Nohr!Corrins thanks to an opportunistic Nohr, Ylisse roflstomping Chorn Sin, and finally Hoshido cutting all ties with Nohr. Nohr starving for resources, moves to war in the events you see in Fates. Corrin is being handled in an odd way imo, as his role is being filled by six different characters. I'll list their bios below Conquest M!Corrin Name: Gabriel Bio: Descendant of Tiki and my male Awakening MU and Hoshidan royalty, he was kidnapped by Nohr at an early age. He chooses to side with Nohr during the war, as he doesn't trust the Hoshidans despite feeling they are in the right in this war, and he could never abandon his adoptive siblings. Lost his eye protecting Camilla from a stampeding horse when he was young, and because of this, she dotes on him endlessly. Born on February 19th, and the only Corrin here to actually be Corrin. Conquest F!Corrin Name: Adrian Bio: Descendant of Tiki and my male Awakening MU, but not Hoshidan royalty as she descends from their second daughter, she was taken by Nohr after said second daughter's death, as she possessed both Exalted blood as well as Naga's blood thanks to said second daughter marrying the son of Lucina and Yarne. While she didn't inherit enough Taguel blood to change into a bunny, she can change into a dragon. Unknowingly committing matricide when she was four, when her birth mother came to rescue her from Nohr, she is COMPLETELY INSANE, and completely agrees with Garon's ambitions and seeks his approval. Despite this, she still winds up helping overthrow him in the end. Born on April 1, and loves bad puns. Hoshido M!Corrin Name: Genome, Gene for short Bio: Son of Tiki and my Awakening male MU, who really took after his father. Wearing a headband and proficient in stealth missions, Gene enters the front lines when Hoshido is invaded to help his sister Morgan protect the country. Gene rarely speaks, preferring to let his actions speak for him. Gene hates the Nohrians with a burning passion, as he feels that they are not only responsible for his father's death, but also two of his loves, who died during various missions either against the Exalted Bloodline, or in one scenario, actually for them. Born on May 1st, and the fondest of swordplay Hoshidan F!Corrin Name: Morgan Bio: First daughter of Tiki and my Awakening M!MU, and ruler in secret of Hoshido. Possessing her same personality from Awakening, but with the addition of a want of revenge for her father's death at the hands of the Exalted bloodline, Morgan is QUICK to go to war when Nohr invades. Still optimistic as ever, she truthfully believes in her cause, even if she doesn't realize she's partially to blame for the war, thanks to her trade embargos against Nohr. Born on May 5th, and the most shamelessly self driven. Revelations M!Corrin Name: Ki Bio: 2nd son of Tiki and my Awakening M!MU, and the only one who never knew his father. Antisocial and a total mama's boy, he follows Tiki on her quest thruout the war, and eventually becomes his own man leading an army against Valla after Tiki stops the fighting between Hoshido and Nohr. Very naive, and he can't stomach the thought of using weapons, but he may for a comrades sake. Born on December 31st, and the earliest riser. Revelations F!Corrin Name Tiki Bio: Widowed wife of my male Awakening MU, and the overall hero of this flustercluck plot. At the onset of the war, she senses something wrong and investigates along with Ki, she eventually discovers Valla, and exposes them as the masterminds of this war. While she never forgave the Exalted Bloodline for their actions against her family, she's willing to let bygone's be bygone's to hopefully mend both family's wounds. Born on February 28th, and the most likely to sleep in [spoiler=RedRob] 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? I'm working on a Nohr route. It really got the short end of the stick. 2.What notable changes would you make to the plot? 1.The singing used by people in the past to calm Hydra down is now an invention made to end the dragon wars, which destroyed Touma. It now affects anything with dragon blood, such as the royal families. While it calms dragons down, the process is painful for the dragon. 2. No barrier surrounding Hoshido. 3.What notable changes would you make to the characters? 1.Corrin was raised as a member of the royal family, but ignored due to the dire state of Nohr. As a result, he wishes to become a soldier to help his family with their duties and be recognized by them. He is also sexually confused, and not sure where his preferences lie. Much to his shame, he harbors mild crushes on his siblings, further complicating his relationship with them. His name comes from a god from a story favored by Garon's first wife. He suffers from social anxiety due to feeling like an outsider to his own family, and is uncomfortable about his origins, believing he's a son of a whore favored by his father 2. Azura was kidnapped by Hoshido in hopes of trading her for Corrin, but Garon fearing they would not keep their word, declined. She became a prisoner, and sang to comfort herself as she grew older. But her song, causing pain to the Hoshido royal family, led to her tongue being cut out, and severe abuse from them for the next several years, with the trauma leaving her mute. Lately she's been having nightmares involving a voice telling her to destroy Hoshido. 3. Elise, Corrin's sister who's the same age, is the only sibling not to ignore him, due to being ignored herself. As a result, she is quite close to her brother, and is frequently seen with him. Kind to all, she wishes to find a way to improve Nohr's harvest, and studies agriculture to that end. 4. Camilla, Corrin's older sister, tries to act as a mother to her siblings and is highly protective of them. Having been traumatized by the infighting among Garon's concubines, which she ended herself by killing them to prevent her and her siblings from being used as tools by them, she now dresses the part of a Courtesan to seduce and kill nobles who she believes plots against her father for their own end, and is quick to resort to violence if her family is threatened. 5. Leon, one of Corrin's older brothers, he acts as the tactician for the kingdom and occasionally can be seen teaching healing magic to Elise. His prowess with magic and tactics come from his abusively strict mother, who sought to use him as a tool to prove she was more suited to be Garon's queen than his other lovers. He was often forced to kill his siblings by her to get ahead, and suffers nightmares about to this day. He is devoted to Camila, who was enraged by how he was treated by his mother, inspiring her to finally end the infighting, with Leon' mother as her first victim. Freed from his mother, Leon now works with Camilla to root out dissidents amongst the nobles. 4. Xander, is Corrin's other older brother, and the least seen due to constantly commanding the army. A father to his men, he is well known for personally helping them with their problems, and strives to be a capable leader that can keep them safe, and bring a swift end to the Invasion of Hoshido to reunite with his family and his men with their's. 5. Garon, the king of Nohr. Grief-stricken by the deaths of his lovers, and the state of his kingdom, he is a broken man who strives to care for what's left of his family. He keeps his youngest, Elise and Corrin out of political affairs, hoping to keep their innocence safe. He regrets not being able to spend time with his family, and is often seen drinking his sorrows away. His biggest regret is the abduction of Corrin, which was a accident. He had invited King Sumeragi to a meeting to discuss the possibility of trading for crops from Hoshido. Having been promised help from Sumeragi, his joy turned to sorrow, as that was a pretext for Sumeragi to mock him and his kingdom as "Bloodthirsty barbarians" in person. He then hears a voice telling to murder Sumeragi. Overcome with grief at the thoughtof his people starving to death,and anger at being cruelly lied to, he obeys, and kills Sumeragi and his guards with the help of magic blessed upon him by the voice. The voice then identified himself as Nohr's guardian deity, the Dark Dragon, who was worshipped due to his power to bring rain to Nohr. The deity explains that the current drought Nohr is experiencing is due to the deity of Hoshido nullfiying his power, and that to stop it, Hoshido must be razed to the ground. Before Garon can take this in, he hears a cry of a newborn, and finds Sumeragi's son. Horrified Sumeragi brought his own child away from the safety of home, and feeling guilt for killing the child's father, he decides to adopt the child, ignoring the deity's warning that the child would bring ruin to Nohr. He names the child Corrin, and keeps his origins a secret from him, not wishing to for Corrin to grow up with the painful knowledge he is a Hoshidian, not a Nohrian. Since then, Garon had obeyed the deity, believing it's guidance will be Nohr's salvation. [spoiler=Dangerus] 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? It is an alternate universe retelling with Awakening. Keywords are 'polygamy', 'siblings', and 'reunion' 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? Each child grows normally with the parent in question. Also, the routes I am thinking about for Shigure and Dwyer is the ones where their mother, Azura, dies. More on that soon. The Deeprealms are only mention to introduce Odin, Lazlow, and Selena as well as bring in Justine and Gilbert and their families. Are problematic elements (the curse, the magic throne, the crystal ball, operation tears, Nohr and Hoshido being too black and white, everything Aqua does) going to be addressed? The War between Nohr and Hoshido will indeed be addressed as the children of the two Corrins in this story will probably even out the 'Pick me!' That each of the siblings did. Having two Corrins would either make this solved or will make it worse. Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako are also reincarnations of the Awakening tacticians, Gilbert and Justine. Are there any themes to be communicated over each route? 'Conquest' would communicate the love Rioci/Ryoki has for Niles, Peri, and Scarlet, and how he is conflicted about Scarlet's choice to fight for Hoshido. He would hopefully be more assertive on his mercifulness and King Garon himself would only listen because Rioci/Ryoki is a chip off his adoptive father with the amount of mistresses he has. Hans only spares her life the same way Clopin spares Pierre the poet's life in the Hunchback of Notre Dame - so Esmeralda (or in this case, Rioci/Ryoki) marries Pierre(Scarlet). This could also actually communicate how Garon was before he was goop-man (something that won't happen in this one because that plot-point was pretty disappointing). Miaco/Miyako meanwhile is on the side of Hoshido. As Ryoma pushes her to forgive herself for abandoning her family in Nohr (including her actual twin brother, Rioci/Ryoki), Miaco/Miyako seeked asylum by her affairs with Izana and Yukimura, who both have mixed feelings on 'sharing' the princess of Hoshido's attention. Ryoma would be a concerned older brother but in the sanctimonious way that nobody liked Hoshido for in the first place. He would hate that Miaco/Miyako chose this path. The choices that Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako make in their decision to marry results in the siblings following suit as well as Siegbert (marrying Sophie) Forrest (marrying Soleil and Rhajat), Shiro (Caeldori) and Kiragi (Percy[?]) have a polygamous relationship despite some of them marrying Hoshidans for it. Percy himself is also struggling as his sense of justice that he grew up sharing with his father could shatter because his love for Soleil, Ophelia, Kiragi, and Velouria. Ophelia is scared for her life as she is hiding her own relationship with Shigure and Dwyer. Xander is marrying Nyx but is having an affair with Hinoka. Ryoma marries Orochi but holds feelings for Camilla that conflict with his view on how relationships SHOULD work. Elise loves Odin but at the same time, she wants to get to know Takumi (who is married to Oboro) more. Leo and Sakura's relationship gets added in with Mozu (who married Hayato) in the mix. And finally, Camilla herself is conflicted because she wants to practice what she preaches to Lazlow but everytime she sees Ryoma, her heart begins to flutter (and she loves Rioci/Ryoki as well but that relationship won't go anywhere). What is the overall direction and "point" of each route? Conquest focuses on how Nohr can be a better place if Corrin opens his mouth more to object his father more and make Garon known for what he was as a father to the other siblings. Birthright focuses on that as well, changing Ryoma's execution of his ideology in the process. Add a thing revealing Gilbert and Justine and you have a long story about how come Nohr and Hoshido can come to an understanding with love. Wait... 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? Once again - No goop Monster What is Kamui all about (background, personality, abilities)? Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako are twins born under Mikoto. They are the descendants of Anankos, much like how their reincarnations were vessels to Grima. What is Aqua all about (personality, role in the plot)? Azura helps for a short amount of time maintain both parties, even marrying the siblings off to their loved ones (and blessing their children). However, she dies off to make room for Jakob's part in the story (a hurt butler that could not persuade Miaco/Miyako to stay in Nohr). What are the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings all about (personalities, roles in the plot)? Ryoma would have the most screen time, being the main conflict that Miaco/Miyako has. He would frown upon Miaco/Miyako for stooping to a Nohrian level. Camilla is Ryoma's Nohrian female counterpart but only in a small level. She would want to be a part of Rioci/Ryoki's life but she would ultimately push herself away because of her marriage to Lazlow. What is Garon, Mikoto, Lilith or any other important character all about? Garon is the antagonist in Rioci/Ryoki's story, not being a goop monster but becoming more and more corrupt with Iago's influence. Mikoto is a mother of twin dragons, which scares many people in Hoshido. Her relationship with Anankos and Sumeragi also comes into play for Miaco/Miyako's relationship between Yukimura (who loved her) and Izana. Lilith is going to be cut out. What is Hydra all about (role in the plot)? Anankos and Sumeragi actually met and while conflicted by Mikoto's decision to marry them both also influence Anankos to eventually become Hydra, angry by Mikoto's choice. Arrete is one of Garon's mistresses further pointing to Garon approving of Rioci/Ryoki marrying Niles, Kaze's wife, Peri, and Scarlet. What changes will be made to minor characters? Kaze shares Peri with Rioci/Ryoki for a while, Peri bringing Midori into the story. However, he will die because he failed to communicate with Miaco/Miyako. Jakob marries Azura and brings Shigure and Dwyer into the world, Ophelia marrying the two. When Azura dies, Jakob attempts suicide with a similar thought process but Rioci/Ryoki stopping him. 4. What notable changes would you make to the setting? Polygamy plays a strong role in this as power players struggle with this. While it is the downfall to Mikoto and Garon's character, it starts a revolution with their children. What ideas do you have for world building? The religion of Hoshido. Why are they sanctimonious? What kind of history does this continent have? I am still thinking on this. What is the balance of natural and supernaturual elements? Deeprealms don't age people and therefore there is no reason for abandonment. So the children all grow at the same age. Are the Faceless and invisible enemies in your story? They are a minor role. Mainly because they would invade Rioci/Ryoki and Miaco/Miyako's meeting place - Their small haildom of Rim Elm. They would come with Gilbert and Justine out of the Deeprealms. 5. Do any characters die? Azura and Kaze do indeed die. This leaves Midori with Rioci/Ryoki as a father and Shigure and Dwyer are motherless. 6. Do you introduce any new characters? Awakening characters - Justine's suitors (Virion, Yen'fay, and Priam) and Gilbert's brides (Tiki and Say'ri.) Also, both Corrins and Robins will have children. Luckily they won't come up unless asked, 7. Are any characters going to be cut? Lilith. There is probably going to be more but that depends on their role in the story. [spoiler=Sire] Notes: - This retelling tries to keep most of the Birthright and Conquest vanilla storyline intact, but tries to be more logical with its actions, as well as some creative liberties thrown in. Revelations has some shared points with the original, but will be rewritten. - As for format, the retelling will take the form of an actual game. So, instead of normal fanfiction and words of text, the format will be more of a game script with music cues, backgrounds, and character actions. There are also planned to be Base Conversations (like FE 9 & 10) that expand on various things, such as world building and character development. - Deep Realms still exist, but are more used more as a justification for challenge maps instead of harboring children. - The “S” Rank support now just means a paired ending, opening up more options. These paired endings can still end in marriage. - Child characters have been changed or revised as the Children mechanic has been scrapped. 3 Children have been turned into NPCs while 2 have been cut completely. The two cut characters have OC replacements. Main Characters - Changes Playable Corrin – Still remains the customizable Avatar character. His personality has been streamlined and remains constant in all three routes. Azura – Azura practically stays the same as before, guiding Corrin. Gunter – Now has supports in Revelations. Kaze – He no longer had a death condition on Birthright, as he will always survive. As for Conquest, it is more difficult to recruit and keep Kaze, but otherwise no changes. Silas – He is now more difficult to keep in Birthright, but otherwise no changes. Laslow, Selena, and Odin – They have a slightly larger role in the overall plot, as per Hidden Truths. Otherwise, mostly the same. Lilith – Now a playable character and has a slightly larger role in the overall plot. Flora – Can be persuaded to survive in Birthright (instead of sacrificing Kaze). Has a support with Jakob. Scarlet – Can be recruited in Conquest under specific conditions, no longer dies in Revelations. Has a support with Ryoma. Yukimra – Joins the party normally on Birthright instead of using a My Castle gimmick. He now joins in Revelations at endgame. True!Garon – The Rightful King of Nohr, he is locked up away in Valla. He is a broken man, having lost his wives, children, and kingdom to Anakos. He can be recruited under specific conditions in both Conquest and Revelations, requiring a paralogue to unlock. Characters not listed here remain practically the same as their vanilla counterparts. However, they may have expanded (and revised) support options. NPC Slime!Garon – Still presents as himself as the King of Nohr. True!Anakos – The true enemy of the entire game, his role is still fairly similar from before. Heart!Anakos – The “human” part of Anakos. He helps from behind the scenes, but is never really seen in the main story. * * * * * Children Characters - Changes Playable Kana – A “true blood” sibling of Corrin, he/she is the youngest out of all of the family members. Hair color is shared with Corrin. Usually cheerful, but often feels lonely and cries. Shigure – Lost brother of Azura. He too can sing with special powers, but he needs to use the Pendant that Azura has. Recruitable only in Revelations. Sophie – A Cavalier in training under Gunter’s watch. She is distantly related to Silas. Follows Corrin on all routes, available from the start. Midori – A war orphan saved by Kaze, she has skills with herbs and medicine. Kaze put her in a Deeprealm for her safety, and he must be present to recruit her when her paralogue opens. Should Kaze leave in Conquest, Midori will also leave if she is present. Siegbert – An inexperienced ruler in a Deeprealm that resembles Nohr. He is found assaulting a rebellious fortress. Otherwise, mostly the same as his vanilla counterpart, even sharing some form of connection with Xander. Forrest – A cousin of Siegbert, providing both counsel and support for his rule. Otherwise, mostly the same as his vanilla counterpart, sharing some form of connection with Leo. Velouria – Keaton’s niece, and she is zealously devoted to him ever since her father died. Otherwise, the same as the vanilla. Percy – He remains as Arthur’s son, but is now in the real world instead of being shipped off to the Deeprealms. Has a paralogue to unlock, requires Arthur to be present. Ophelia & Soleil – The daughters of Odin and Laslow respectively. After Anakos took the Awakening trio to Fates, Naga (from Awakening) found it suitable that they would receive aid from their children from the future, much like how they helped their parents defeat Grima. - Soleil may have some revisions to dialogue, but her overall character remains the same. - Selena comments on why she doesn’t have a child to help her out, which the other two respond rather humorously. (If there is Awakening save data and Severa has an “S” support with either Inigo or Owain, the dialogue will change to reflect this.) - As for hair color, the default is blonde for Ophelia and pink for Soleil. However, if there is Awakening save data, the hair color will change to reflect that of the “S” rank partner of Owain and Inigo respectively. - The author knows this is “Fates BS”, but what is a FE game without some nonsense? andauthorbias Nina – A young thief from the slums and thoroughly acquainted with Niles. She dislikes Niles for attempting to be a father-figure to her. Otherwise, the same as vanilla. Shiro – A ruler of a Deep Realm that resembles Hoshido, he does not give off any sense of royalty. He is found defending a village from bandits, and has some connection to Ryoma. Kiragi – A cousin to Shiro, he enjoys hunting and life in general. He has a connection to Takumi. Selkie – A friend of Kaden’s. Otherwise unchanged from her vanilla self. Mitama – A shrine maiden who enjoys poetry. Otherwise unchanged from her vanilla self. Caledori – A freelance Sky Knight, she bears a resemblance to Awakening’s Cordelia and is rather competitive with Subaki. Caledori also has some form of bond with Selena. She is the same as her Fates variant. Chiyo (OC: Diviner -> Basara) – A member of the Wind Tribe, she is quite a tall woman with a master of scrolls. Isamu (OC: Oni Savage -> Blacksmith) – A wandering Oni in search for rare materials. He dreams of opening up his own weapon shop someday. Note: Not a ninja because there are already 3 ninjas, and we don’t have a male Oni Savage. NPC Dwyer – A Butler in training at the Northern Fortress. He is lazy and dislikes work, but does the best job out of all of the staff present, even senior staff, much to Jakob’s chagrin. Ignatius – The son of Benny, he is a border guard much like his father. Hisame – A brother of Hinata. Otherwise, he is like his vanilla self when he appears. Cut Characters Asugi & Rharjat – Awakening reincarnations. The only reason Caledori makes it in is that she has connections to Selena. andauthorbias [spoiler=Developer Notes, Spoilers Ahead!] Azura - Azura has become an unwilling pawn of Anakos. If the player follows the Conquest or Birthright path, she accomplishes her duty and fades away. The world is thereafter conquered and destroyed by True!Anakos, but the player is sent back to the “Branch of Fate” by Heart!Anakos in an attempt to break the cycle (Revelations). - If the player does the Revelations route, Azura will eventually betray the party. Her “role” will be replaced by Shigure, her lost brother. When Azura is finally defeated, she will thank the party for freeing her before she dies. Kaze - On Birthright, Kaze will always survive. This moment has been changed over to Flora to persuade her to join the party instead of sacrificing herself. - Conquest specifics are currently unknown. Kaze will switch sides, but may not remain in your party without certain conditions. (Perhaps if the player executes Shura, Kaze leaves?) Silas - To serve as a foil for Kaze being difficult to maintain, Silas will be more difficult to keep in Birthright than Conquest. - Silas will be blackmailed and turn against Corrin (out of concern for his friend’s safety, “for the greater good”). However, having an A support with Silas will prevent this as Silas sees through the ruse. Laslow, Selena, and Odin - They are now more aware of their mission to find Corrin and bring peace to the world of Fates, referencing this in the main story. - In Birthright, they lament that they could not persuade Corrin and that they were on opposing sides. In Conquest, Corrin does not listen to the trio, not believing what they have to say. In Revelations, they back up what Shigure has to say, further damning Azura’s plight. Lilith - Lilith still serves as a “True Blood” sibling to Corrin. - She will still sacrifice herself on Birthright and Conquest, but this is (hopefully) done in a more meaningful manner. When she does fade away, she leave behind items called “Lilith’s Tears” which are gained per every level Lilith has. This item will grant a level to any unit that uses it, so essentially the player can transfer the EXP of Lilith to other characters to make up for her loss. Normal level up rules apply. - As for My Castle interactions, whenever Lilith appears in human form (whether she is fielded in battle, working in a shop, or just walking about), an ethereal variant of her Dragon form will appear at the shrine. When Lilith passes, the interaction is the same as vanilla. Flora - She can be spared in Birthright if Corrin has an A rank with the “late servant” to the party. So, if the avatar is female, Corrin must have an A rank with Felicia, but if male, an A rank with Jakob. This will require grinding supports as there is only one main story chapter between their join time and Flora’s event. - The character who has the A rank will successfully convince Flora to stand down and join the party. Scarlet - In Conquest, Scarlet can be spared if the player finishes her map quickly enough. She will sneak out alongside a few loyal soldiers, and will come back to help the player during the later chapters (which has a revised arc). If the player is too slow, Corrin will still attempt to free Scarlet, but she gets caught and is made an example out of by Hans and company. - In Revelations, Scarlet no longer dies, but is knocked out of commission for a chapter (to mimic Elise and Takumi’s roles in Conquest and Birthright). Yukimra - In Birthright, he will successfully defend Hoshido and then launch a counteroffensive on Nohr. The player meets him after Chapter 24. - In Revelations, he will hold the fort down as long as possible, but the Vallites overpower his forces. He will then make his way to Valla and join up with Corrin to finish the fight as quickly as possible. Kana - Kana is kept locked away in the Deep Realms by Lilith. When she sacrifices herself in Birthright or Conquest, she tells the Avatar about Kana, opening a paralogue to recruit Kana into the party. - In Revelations, when Azura betrays the party, she will go after Kana. This will open up a special paralogue, if not completed before a certain chapter, disappears and has consequences. (Kana will fall under Azura’s influence and become an enemy unit. Kana will not be able to be recruited after this point.) Shigure - Shigure is stuck in Valla and has to handle his own. - When Corrin goes to Valla during Conquest, Shigure meets him, but Azura commands Corrin to strike Shigure down. Corrin, being manipulated by Azura’s song, kills him in Conquest, preventing the truth from being known. - However, in Revelations, Shigure meets Corrin alongside the rest of Corrin’s army. Azura is powerless in this situation and she is exposed by Shigure, and she is replaced by Shigure as a playable character. True!Garon - During Conquest, True!Garon’s paralogue opens at Chapter 27 after the main campaign has been completed (You must complete Conquest before True!Garon’s paralogue opens). In addition, Selena, Laslow, and Odin must be alive to attempt this chapter, if they are all dead, the chapter is inaccessible. -- The Awakening Trio (or the survivors) are found in Valla as they discuss how to handle their mission. They find Garon stuck in his cell and in despair. The trio defend Garon and escape with him, and upon reaching the surface, the Nohr Royals are in disbelief seeing Garon again after he was defeated in Chapter 26. However, they quickly learn that this Garon is the real one, and there’s a happy reunion as Garon finds himself again and promptly kicks ***. - During Revelations, the paralogue opens up after the main campaign is completed at Chapter 27. The player can choose their units for the paralogue, and it plays differently than the one with the trio. However, it has the same effect of True!Garon finding himself, reuniting with his kids, and then kicking *** as any endgame character does. Chapter Dev Notes Conquest - The Hoshidian Invasion arc has been rewritten. After the massacre at Fort Jinya, Corrin becomes disillusioned with Azura’s plan and makes his own path to rebel against Garon (and try to gain Hoshidian support). He tries to convince Takumi, but as he is possessed, he does not care. Corrin does manage to successfully convince Hinoka, and Chapter 25 is when Corrin rebels instead of fighting Ryoma. During this time, if Scarlet is still alive, will she come and join up with the party. - Chapter 25 has Corrin fight Hans and Iago. Chapter 26 is when Corrin fights King!Garon. - The battle is thought won, so the party goes to the Throne Room during Chapter 27 where they see Slime!Garon sitting on the throne. Filled with anger, Ryoma charges at Slime!Garon only to be effortlessly dispatched alongside his retainers. Ryoma dies due to this blow. - The Endgame with Takumi remains mostly the same, but Takumi’s anger is amplified on seeing the corpse of Ryoma. Revelations - One of the Revelations chapters have Corrin face off with Ryoma, like in Conquest Chapter 25, due to that chapter being rewritten. - Chapter 27 is when the player faces off against Azura. During this chapter, the game will read if you have any cleared Birthright and Conquest saves. Using data from the latest clear file from both paths, that Avatar will appear as an opponent in this chapter with the same stats, skills, and items in their inventory. -- Of course, should the player try to cheat the system (having no skills or items, and low stats), the game will compensate by giving the player the appropriate equipment. (Endgame Yato, Dragonstone +, all default skills, scaled stats, etc.) -- If there is no cleared data, a “default” Avatar will be used with the appropriate equipment. -- When fighting Azura, “End of All – Below” plays. The entire party is debuffed due to her song, and Azura breaks the limits of her Songstress stat caps. - As for Endgame, the party fights against Anakos properly. The music that is played is Shigure’s variant of “End of All”, as he now has the pendant and can properly weaken Anakos. [spoiler=SaiSymbolic] 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? For all intents and purposes, it is an alternate universe retelling based heavily around a change of personality and genetic inheritance in the Avatar character. Elements from each route is present, however, the overall story and structure is different from of canon. The story (or rather, drabbles that will likely not see the light of day) focuses on the Avatar character, the psychological effects of his captivity and how he affects the cast of characters and the story as a whole. 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? · Are problematic elements (the curse, the magic throne, the crystal ball, operation tears, Nohr and Hoshido being too black and white, everything Aqua does) going to be addressed? All of the above have been changed. Except perhaps the crystal ball, which would have a completely different function than in canon—if I don’t decide to scrap it completely. · Are there any themes to be communicated over each route? None, in particular. · What is the overall direction or “point” of each route? There are no particular directions, other than writing a main character with a different mindset than the canon!Corrinmui. I suppose you could consider the story/drabbles a psychological thriller-type with inspirations from various real-life historic subjects and lots of headcanon. World-building is included. 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? · What is Kamui all about (background, personality, abilities)? For the set of drabbles, Corrinmui is known by two names: his true name is Kagutsuchi and his Nohrian name is Canicus, as I find it completely idiotic that Garon kidnapped the boy but did not bother to change his name to something more fitting to his culture. He is still the child of Mikoto and Anankos, however, he does not retain the ability to turn into a dragon. Instead, he inherits the ability for necromancy, which is a play on Phoenix Mode available in-game. All living beings killed by Kagutsuchi only can be revived from the dead and under his complete control. Beings revived by Kagutsuchi are essentially undead—they lack sentience, memories or personality from their time as human—and, unless cremated, they retain all injuries sustained from their death. Like canon, he is kidnapped at a young age and taken by Garon and actually raised as his own child, meaning his views are biased by what Garon has fed to him and tarnished by the fact that he is a hostage that was abandoned by his own kingdom. He is a deliberate being with an intelligence earned from years of reading, observing and studying—as well as his draconic heritage amplifying that. Throughout the story, Kagutsuchi’s mental state will gradually degrade due to a combination of the death of loved ones, personality disorders, a Messiah/God-complex, all of which can be somewhat attributed to the degeneration found in his paternal side of the family. · What is Azura all about (personality, role in the story)? Aqua is similar to how she is canonically but there may or may not be something else about her… I haven’t completely decided her role in the story. · What are the Hoshidan and Nohrian siblings all about (personalities, roles in plot)? The siblings will resemble how they are canonically but not completely. · What is Garon, Mikoto, Lilith or any other important character all about? Garon is not Slime!Daddy but he is a strict, unscrupulous ruler of Nohr that is not above chopping off a few heads or stringing up a few bodies to make a point. Sumeragi is not dead—he is just as strict as his counterpart and, while his way are not as gruesome as Garon’s, he is still seen as the opposite extreme. Think of them as the Law and Chaos factions from the SMT series. Mikoto is alive and her portrayal is influenced by the loss of her home, her only child and her husband’s overzealous ways. Lilith is present but not for long. · What is the Hydra all about (role in plot)? His presence is not as blatant as canon but he can be felt in various ways, mainly through his child. · What changes will be made to minor characters? A lot. Some will most likely be cut due to a combination of not fitting into the story or my own oversights. 4. What notable changes would you make to the setting? · What ideas do you have for world building? A lot. · What kind of history does this continent have? Something similar to the Warring States Era, in which there were many tribes and families fighting for their own stake of land/ruling. Garon and Sumeragi are the two Big Bosses that have many territories under their belts through conquest, diplomacy and inheritance. Living in one kingdom has its pro and cons over the other—neither is the perfect place on the Earth. · What is the balance of natural and supernatural elements? All that is normal for a Fire Emblem game. · Are the Faceless and invisible enemies in your story? Faceless will be scaled down and not as prominent. Invisible enemies are more or less absent. 5. Do any characters die? Many, many people will die. No one is protected by plot armor. 6. Will you introduce any new characters? Probably just some Randies here and there. It depends on the context and if they are needed. 7. Are any characters going to be cut? Felicia, most definitely. Flora does not have a sister. Likely most of the children, if I don't implement them in a different manner. [spoiler=Abvora] 1. What routes are you working on? Is it an amalgamation of all three? Is it an alternate universe style retelling? None, the fic is set pre-game, detailing how Mikoto went from Vallite princess to queen of Hoshido. It's a short story, set shortly before Corrin's birth to shortly after his kidnapping, with a potential epilogue taking place during his return to Hoshido in Chapters 4/5. 2. What notable changes would you make to the plot? See above. 3. What notable changes would you make to the characters? Lots of alternate character interpretation to Mikoto; instead of being a morally pure saint, she's now a politically-savvy royal who, while ultimately good-intentioned, does some morally questionable things. Some unseen characters, like Queen Ikona, will be given personalities, and some like Sumeragi and Arete will have their characterizations expanded on. 4. What notable changes would you make to the setting? Lots of world-building, notably expanding on the history of Valla and draconic lore; expanding on the history of Hoshido and Nohr; some expansion on minor settings like the Fire Tribe and Izumo; and adding in moral greyness. 5. Do any characters die? Yes, but everyone who is alive when the original game starts will survive the fic. 6. Do you introduce any new characters? Yes, several original characters. 7. Are any characters going to be cut? No.

Bac too ye olde n' notte foregetton inne Tokio Myrage Sessiones. I tried to make these kinda balanced and not too crazy powerful, which my first set of TMS characters may or may not have been. Making so many and having already done some, at many points I had to deviate from a strict basing of skills and effects on what a given Class Change offers, and not everything here is bound to be good. Honestly, this is a mess. I was going to include stat guidelines, but I left them out, too much work. I also mostly left out filler generic skills. The epithets are my own. First, my main reason for doing this round of writeups, Conquerer!Chrom (he has very little personality? Does Possessed Celica offer an argument?): Lord (Conqueror): Mirage Chrom (Sword Infantry, maaaybe Armor for variety's sake) Darkfire Knight: Mirage Cain (Technically it be just Dark Knight, but why not improve it a little?) Lance Cavalry Gilded Wyvern (Wyvern Knight): Mirage Caeda (Lance Flier) (Sorcerer) of Chaos: Mirage Tharja (Red Tome Infantry) Gentleman (Assassin): Virion (Red Bow Infantry) Steel (Berserker): Draug (Axe Armor) Fierce (Swordmaster): Navarre (Sword Infantry) Phew! That gets through all the "dark" Mirage Class Changes. And onto the "light".: (Great Lord) of Thunder: Mirage Chrom (Blue Tome Infantry) Protective (Paladin): Mirage Cain (Lance Cavalry) Azure (Falcon Knight): Mirage Caeda (Lance Flier) Sanctimonious (Sage): Mirage Tharja (Staff Infantry) Squall (Sniper): Virion (Colorless Bow Infantry) Golden (General): Mirage Draug (Axe Armor) (Hero) of Fortitude: Navarre (Sword Infantry)

So, I completely ignored this at first, but hey, Let's move past the fact that I didn't say it was okay to rape someone. Or that I didn't say I wouldn't go out of my way to stop it. That saying I don't think KILLING someone is the right action isn't the same as being complacent and being okay with evil acts. Let's go past that horseshit, and move on to the fact you don't know me, or my life, and how dare you act like I've never had tragedy strike in my life? You don't know what's happened to me, or my family, or my friends. The pain I've personally known. How that's shaped me as a person. You'd rather strawman and contort what I've said to further promote you're own twisted beliefs. And for your information, yes, I have known that pain, I have had to live through it. And I still don't think killing another person is the right, or "just" thing to do. So go shove your sanctimonious radical extreme ideas up your rearend and don't you ever dare speak about my life, or my family again like that.

First of all, I find it absolutely hilarious that you tell me to get off my high-horse last page and then you go ahead and post this sanctimonious, condescending drivel. The fact that you didn't even bother trying to refute what I said in favour of this holier-than-thou crap is downright insulting. Now excuse me while I break this down; I'm going to ask you to clarify this, because the implication you're giving here is that they won't vote for the Libertarian party purely because of the hardline-partisan bullshit that has made US politics into it's current messy and unpleasant state. Your first mistake is equating conservative with the GOP. There are plenty of conservatives, even in the US, who are disgusted by what the modern day GOP has become. If you want me to find specific examples, let me know, but I don't really think that's necessary. Your second mistake is putting words in my mouth. As I said a few posts ago; Your third mistake is in the last sentence, "at least not American conservatives". I know conservatives, I have conservative friends, my fucking dad is a conservative. I know plenty of of 'honest, well-meaning' conservatives and it is because of that my reaction to American conservatism is so harsh, because the US is much further to the right than the rest of the Western world and, as an outsider-looking-in, the conclusion I've drawn is (similar to many others in this thread) that the GOP brand of conservatism is very much a far-right sort. Which is exactly what you're doing right now. The idea that my views and opinions are apparently worthless because I don't fit into your ill-defined criteria of 'living it' is absolutely ridiculous. The LNP isn't that much different than the GOP, and the area I live in is very much a Liberal safe seat, so perhaps don't start making assumptions about what my life is and isn't like. Now if you could practice what you preach and get off your high horse and post an actual response to what I'm trying to say, that would be lovely.

oh so other than the part where he talks about destroying north korea and iran, he was very civil. other than the calling for genocide there was nothing genocidal in his speech, that's one way to view things i guess. the north korea and iran regimes might be shit, but they don't pose anywhere near the danger or commit anything close to the level of mass murder that the us does, grandstanding and threatening those countries is sanctimonious and way more scary than anything coming from those places.

i think it would make more sense for male corrin to choose birthright, and female corrin to choose revelations, because as shit as the revelations story is, no protagonist with any credibility or worth would choose the conquest path though you could maybe have an amoral asshole corrin who drops the sanctimonious pretext for conquest, that would be kind of neat

ok well how about this; i'll continue to eat meat because it's culturally accepted, easily accessible, cheap and improves overall dietary balance and you'll work on being a less toxic person humans are always gonna consume a shitton of meat, but i do think it's a worthwhile goal to go through less. honestly kind of admire vegetarians for doing their part, as long as they don't get sanctimonious about it

You’ve given a handful of examples of how older games are guilty of the same problems Conquest, none of which actually show those problems, and all of your examples come from one game. Other games in the series supposedly sharing the same flaws doesn't excuse Conquest for having those flaws as well. Nohrrin not being allowed to grow and mature as a character is bad writing. Nohrrin never learning from her mistakes is bad writing. Nohrrin never facing any consequences for her mistakes is bad writing. Nohrrin participating in the invasion of Hoshido and having it portrayed as a noble action is bad writing. Nohrrin being a sanctimonious hypocrite with no hint of self-awareness is bad writing. I’m going to drop the points about Sanaki and Shinon because it’s clear that discussion is going nowhere and there are more important points to be discussed. You’ll have to excuse me if things get a little disjointed, the magnitude of problems in this statement is going to take some time to sort through. -First, Ike isn’t entirely in the wrong in either scenario. -By default, getting called out by the narrative and other characters for his mistakes makes Ike far superior to Nohrrin. -As does the narrative acknowledging that Ike makes mistakes, even if he doesn’t necessarily get punished for them. Every time Nohrrin gets called out in Conquest, it’s by characters who are portrayed as either irrationally hateful or ignorant. -Also, Ike actually grows as a character because the narrative isn’t afraid to call him out. Nohrrin does not. -None of Ike’s mistakes compare to the severity of the mistakes that Nohrrin makes. -Two “lucky” saves (one of which wasn’t actually luck, but part of a larger plan by Sanaki) doesn’t compare to Conquest twisting itself into knots to justify and excuse Nohrrin’s villainy. -Sanaki has an established reason for sparing Ike, in that she needs someone that the Senate can’t get to in order to eliminate the laguz slave trade. Two (feeling regret for being a jerk), depending on your interpretation of her silence during Ike’s speech and her words after. -Ike didn’t know that Goldoa was hostile to outsiders, or even that they were in Goldoa at all, and left the ship because they were stranded with no visible way of escaping the reef the ship was caught in. If anyone, Nasir deserves the blame for not informing anyone beforehand that they were in Goldoa. Unless you’re going to argue that Ike was in the wrong for not magically knowing all of that information? -Kurthnaga’s actions are supposed to establish that he’s a kind individual who firmly believes in co-existence of beorc and laguz and opposes his father's isolationism. -And, finally, other characters and Ike himself addressing Ike’s actions and criticizing him for them does not constitute them being “shrugged off.” Nothing about this statement changes or disproves my point. If you feel there are elements of Conquest’s ending or even its narrative as a whole which are legitimately deconstructive or subversive, then please share what they are and explain why you feel they are. Otherwise, the game portrays Conquest’s ending as a happy one, even if the player doesn’t necessarily agree. Bolded: Only if you accept that Conquest’s plot as it played out was a complete inevitability like the game presents.

I can respect that you're goodie two shoes who wants to 'help' people, but please keep your uncouth opinion to yourself if all you do is judge others on basis of some random incentive you came up with on the fly. I can load up my team with useless overpriced items just fine, some people might not need that though, for those I have a little challenge which can be completed in a matter of minutes. Maybe I should replace those items with two Naga's tears or spam* Supreme Emblems to provide sanctimonious hypocrites like you with a raison d’être. Edit*

Family Guy may have been animation's low point in terms of animation quality and writing, but nothing ever beats how False Equivalency: the Poorly Animated Show for Vulgar Manchildren South Park validated droves of manchildren's political views through fart jokes and sanctimonious "THE TRUTH MUST ALWAYS BE IN THE MIDDLE" lectures

How can you possibly expect someone to react well following your constant sanctimonious behavior throughout this an other topics regarding gun control? You've been a thinly-veiled dick throughout many of these conversations by just sitting on a high horse and painting the picture of a crime-ridden America, with everyone fearing just to walk around outside.

After some consideration. I've decided to leave the FE community in general. In the last three years, I've experienced little but false praise, betration, and torment from my fellows in the community(not necessarily in that order). I've been used, abused, and kicked to the curb either for not being a slave as people want me to be, or for daring to have my own opinion and fighting for it. Spriters, hackers, mappers, all of it. It is nothing but a flock of sanctimonious self-righteous assholes who lord their false superiority over their lessers, surround themselves with sycophants, and beat down anybody with the courage to try and break the cycle. Spriting was a fun hobby for the last three years. But alas, all good things come to an end. Reality sets in and you realize what you put on a pedestal ain't all it is cracked up to be. No sense in wasting time of my life in something that only brings me pain. I've tried quitting before, but always got sucked back in. Like an addict's relapse. The only solution is complete severing of contact with FE related. The friends I've made whom I discuss non-FE related things will stay in my contacts as FE is only how I met them, and not why I talk to them. For those of you who have gotten joy at my expense these last few years(you know who you are). I hope it was worth it to you. This is my farewell to the FE community. ~Nayr

[spoiler=SMT logs] So there we were, adrift without any real ideas of where to go when suddenly something that had been nearly forgot worked its way back to the surface of memory, and at nearly the same time Chalis and I turned to each other and said, "That man in the lower levels of Ginza!" Yes, the old greybeard who'd advised us that we were on the right path, though it was less trodden and more difficult than others, and that if we'd lost our way he would have advice for us. Spirits brightened, we headed off to meet him immediately. He opens with yet more affirmation that by refusing to side with either Chaos or Law that we are making the right choice. Those options would not lead mankind to true happiness. He doesn't outright tell us the answer, but simply expresses his belief that Chalis and I are the only ones who can make the right choice, who can prevent the tragedy of mankind being relegated to pawn status to either of the higher powers. He then points us in the direction of an underground tunnel straight to the contentious Cathedral itself. Stepping forward into the Cathedral from the secret passage, we advance to discover Nightmar and Ether in a face off, having a heated arguement with each other. Each makes pleas with us to listen to their case, to try to persuade us to then in turn convince the other. Stepping forward to hear Ether's case first, he admits to being frustrated, and a little freaked out about how blithely Nightmar just accepts the orders handed down from God. "It's almost as if he's stopped thinking for himself," comes the claim, which while perhaps harsh when applied to Nightmar is certainly something I'd found myself thinking about some of the other Messianics. He relays the situation about how the Gaian church and the forces of Chaos successfully pulled off their infiltration effort, and levied their assault against the Cathedral just in the nick of time, while also making a few unfounded boasts about how things will be like once they've eliminated the opposition. Following that, Ether has a proposition for me. He first asks whether I'm familiar with the Four Devas, and I shake my head, indicating my confusion. As he proceeds to explain however, I realize he must be talking about the four great Oni, or Kishin, that have been alluded to by the various rumors in Shibuya, Shinegawa, Ikeburo, and Ueno. As he lists them off by name, that also refreshes my memory and I start to nod in agreement. Ether seems to think these beings will be willing to help out, but also that they'd be a good test of power. That marks the end of his argument and then I turn to listen to the other side. Nightmar feels like Ether has lost sense of his morality, and has sold his soul to the demons. In truth this is an opinion I've heard him express ever since the human-demon fusion Ether foolhardily rushed into, and I won't deny having a few doubts about the man's stability myself. Still, there is a sanctimonious "holier than thou" attitude that he's giving off which makes his explanation and his case much less palatable. Nightmar too has a proposition involving the Four Devas, only this time he wants to see them dead, as somehow they're holding God back from being able to implement his grand design. Not exactly excited about rushing out to tackle the Devas immediately, before even deciding which approach we'll take towards them, Chalis and I explore the first levels of the Cathedral (F1 and B1). It's very large, and somewhat segmented in a not entirely mazelike fashion. After some hours of travelling around in near circles we find relatively close to where Nightmar and Ether are having their arguement a pair of towns set up. The Law Town was the first one that we had come across, and they welcomed us inside, promising that it would be a welcome respite, free from monster attacks. One of the Messians also proclaims how excited he is to meet God's Archangels who have descended from heaven to take up stations at various points in the Cathedral, defending against the demonic assault. Also in Law town was a most curious thing. There was a temple set up and ready to sacrifice an octopus in the name of god. The octopus pleaded with me to save its life, and in compassion we undertook to do so. The Messian tried to convince me otherwise, but I was resolute in my determination, and he relented. The demon, now freed, remarked that though we looked extremely tasty, since we saved its life it wouldn't eat us, but would instead let us go. It even gave us an Octopus Whistle, to use to call it if we ever should need its help. The Chaos town was on the same level, but on the opposite side, and was less structured and much more ad-hoc. It didn't have quite the levels of protection set up either, as wandering around the vendors one would occasionally be beset by a random encounter with a demon. There were two tibits of information in the town that were very much worth learning. The first was that the Chaos faction had completely taken over all of the basement levels of the Cathedral, and that that had similarly epic levels of demons brought along in their ranks, presumably to rival the Archangel's on God's side. There was a rumor that Lucifer himself may even show up to lend a hand, but that was less well substantiated. The final thing of note was a very curious shop. It claimed to have had a turtle for sale, but since nobody had been interested in buying it, the shopkeeper had cooked it and eaten it. This was truly baffling to me, and I cannot imagine what was going through his mind. Presumably if we hadn't wasted all that time arguing with the priest to free the octopus, I could have saved the turtle's life instead, but what's done is done.

Congratulations to Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D. for saying that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. That definitely wins the prize for being the most slimy and intransigent thing I've ever heard. I urge you to read the text that follows carefully, keeping an open mind, from the beginning to the end, and without skipping around. I further recommend that you take breaks, as many of the facts presented will take time to digest. Think about that for a moment. He knows how to lie. It's too bad he doesn't yet understand the ramifications of lying. I have a T-shirt emblazoned with the following inscription: "I have resisted taking legal action against Councilmember Mask, as others have advised me to do." I like to wear that T-shirt to make a point about how I am getting tired of sweeping up after repeated Robin D Mask fiascoes. Let's remember that. He is utterly unperturbed by the worst types of patronizing, mutinous peddlers of snake-oil remedies I've ever seen destroying our moral fiber. To cap that off, the spectrum of views between escapism and nepotism is not a line but a circle at which lascivious stumblebums and dirty reprobates meet. To properly place Councilmember Mask somewhere in that spectrum one needs to realize that Councilmember Mask insists that no one is smart enough to see through his transparent lies. Sorry, Councilmember Mask, but, with apologies to Gershwin, "it ain't necessarily so." It seems to me that, as others have stated long before me, "Councilmember Mask should slither back under whatever rock he crawled out from." Never have I seen such a gross error in judgment as his decision to make bargains with the devil. There's no mystery about it, no more room for fairy tales, just the knowledge that I stand by what I've written before, that he argues that the laws of nature don't apply to him. To maintain this thesis, Councilmember Mask naturally has had to shovel away a mountain of evidence, which he does by the desperate expedient of claiming that all minorities are poor, stupid ghetto trash. Someone needs to work together towards a shared vision. Who's going to do it? Councilmember Mask? I think not. Without beating around the bush, I'll tell you now what I have concluded about Councilmember Mask's supercilious activities. I've concluded that my purpose here is not to win the culture war and save this country. Well, okay, it is. But I should point out that Councilmember Mask's favorite buzzword these days is "crisis". He likes to tell us that we have a crisis on our hands. He then argues that the only reasonable approach to combat this crisis is for him to empty garbage pails full of the vilest slanders and defamations on the clean garments of honorable people. In my opinion, the real crisis is the dearth of people who understand that teenagers who want to shock their parents sometimes maintain—with a straight face—that Councilmember Mask can be trusted to judge the rest of the world from a unique perch of pure wisdom. Fortunately, most parents don't fall for this fraud because they know that Councilmember Mask's eccentricity is surpassed only by his vanity and his vanity is surpassed only by his empty theorizing. (Remember his theory that the few of us who complain regularly about his imprecations are simply spoiling the party?) While this country still has far to go before people are truly judged on the content of their character, we must build a better world, a cleaner world, a safer world, and a saner world. This call to action begins with you. You must be the first to maximize our individual potential for effectiveness and success in combatting him. You must be the one to detail the specific steps and objectives needed to thwart Councilmember Mask's incompetent little schemes. And you must inform your fellow man that I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want Councilmember Mask to control, manipulate, and harm other people, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while Councilmember Mask claims that he's a moral exemplar. One other thing: Councilmember Mask's desire to fight with spiritual weapons that are as spiteful as they are biased is the chief sign that he's a wild mattoid. (The second sign is that Councilmember Mask feels obliged to ascribe opinions to me that I don't even hold.) I have never read anything he has written that I would consider wise, logical, pertinent, reasonable, or scientific. Councilmember Mask's statement that laws are meant to be broken is no exception. What's more, he bickers and argues over petty things. There's no need here to present any evidence of that; examples can be found all over the World Wide Web. In fact, a simple search will quickly reveal that I am not trying to save the world—I gave up that pursuit a long time ago. But I am trying to provide you with vital information that Councilmember Mask has gone to great lengths to prevent you from discovering. I like to say that everything Councilmember Mask tells you is a lie. He never directly acknowledges such truisms but instead tries to turn them around to make it sound like I'm saying that character development is not a matter of "strength through adversity" but rather, "entitlement through victimization". I guess that version better fits his style—or should I say, "agenda"? Although the proper definition of "hippopotomonstrosesquipidelian" is hotly disputed, his morals reek of cameralism. I use the word "reek" because over time, his effusions have progressed from being merely acrimonious to being superacrimonious, hyperacrimonious, and recently ultraacrimonious. In fact, I'd say that now they're even megaacrimonious. Didn't Councilmember Mask tell his acolytes that he wants to require religious services around the world to begin with "Councilmember Mask is great; Councilmember Mask is good; we thank Councilmember Mask for our daily food"? Did Councilmember Mask first give any thought to what would happen if he did? Of course, that question is ridiculous—as ridiculous as Councilmember Mask's reckless expedients. He seems incapable of understanding that his goal is to egg on negative externalities in the form of evasion, collusion, and corruption. How condescending is that? How prolix? How overweening? The justification Councilmember Mask gave for plaguing our minds was one of the most belligerent justifications I've ever heard. It was so belligerent, in fact, that I will not repeat it here. Even without hearing the details you can still see my point quite clearly: I'm sure Councilmember Mask wouldn't want me to eavesdrop on his conversations. So why does he want to disguise the complexity of color, the brutality of class, and the importance of religion and sexual identity in the construction and practice of frotteurism? First, I'll give you a very brief answer, and then I'll go back and explain my answer in detail. As for the brief answer, he has tried leading to the destruction of the human race. He has also tried increasing society's cycle of hostility and violence. Why does Councilmember Mask do such things? While I don't know the answer to that particular question, I do know that Councilmember Mask's argument that he should create an atmosphere that may temporarily energize or exhilarate but which, at the same time, will pose the gravest of human threats because "it's the right thing to do" is hopelessly flawed and absolutely circuitous. While it is not my purpose to incriminate or exculpate or vindicate or castigate, the conformism "debate" is not a debate. It is a harangue, a politically motivated, brilliantly publicized, maladroit attack on progressive ideas. Strange, isn't it, how what I call unconscionable boors are always the first to usher in the beginning of a scurrilous new era of paternalism? I want my life to count. I want to be part of something significant and lasting. I want to put to rest the animosities that have kept various groups of people from enjoying anything other than superficial unity. To most people, the list of Councilmember Mask's dictatorial sophistries reads like a comic strip but his recommendations are actually taken seriously by his dupes. Councilmember Mask thinks I'm trying to say that his way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't. Wait! I just heard something. Oh, never mind; it's just the sound of the point zooming way over Councilmember Mask's head. As I conclude this letter, let me remind you that my goal in writing it was not only to begin the invigorating, rejuvenating process of addressing a number of important issues. I sought also to use this letter as a means to snap Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s chums out of their trance. Please pardon the meretricious overtones that will be found throughout this letter, but Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D. has reinvented himself as a conniving moocher. Let's get down to business: I am making a pretty serious accusation here. I am accusing Councilmember Mask of planning to influence the attitudes of dominant culture towards any environment or activity that is predominantly snarky. And I don't want anyone to think that I am basing my accusation only on the fact that if he were to get his hands on the levers of power he'd immediately defy the law of the land. If you don't believe me then consider that his latest manifesto, like all the ones that preceded it, is a consummate anthology of disastrously bad writing teeming with misquotations and inaccuracies, an odyssey of anecdotes that are occasionally entertaining but certainly not informative. As I have indicated, Councilmember Mask might have been in a lethargic state of autointoxication when he said that he is forward-looking, open-minded, and creative. More likely, perhaps, is that Councilmember Mask says that his tirades enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness. That's a stupid thing to say. It's like saying that a book of his writings would be a good addition to the Bible. Let's be realistic: his hijinks are not an abstract problem. They have very concrete, immediate, and unpleasant consequences. For instance, there is no reason to lead people towards iniquity and sin and there is every reason not to. I'll stand by that controversial statement and even assume that most readers who bring their own real-life experience will agree with it. At a bare minimum, my psychologist friends tell me that mendacious, vainglorious slumlords tend to dismiss reason, science, and objective reality. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he plans to fuel the censorship-and-intolerance crowd. The result will be an amalgam of gloomy exclusivism and mad barbarism, if such a monster can be imagined. By working together, we can act against injustice, whether it concerns drunk driving, domestic violence, or even sexism. As an interesting experiment, try to point this out to him. (You might want to don safety equipment first.) I think you'll find that Councilmember Mask says that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. Such verbal gems teach us that Councilmember Mask managed to convince a bunch of destructive adulterers to help him build a totalitarian death machine. What was the quid pro quo there? If you need help in answering that question, you may note that letting him encourage a deadly acceptance of intolerance is tantamount to cutting your own wrist with a razor blade. But that's not all: He fervently believes that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Councilmember Mask himself). This shows that Councilmember Mask is not merely mistaken about one little fact among millions of facts but that what we're seeing is a domino effect of events that started with him stating that morally questionable meanies and the most jackbooted hoodlums I've ever seen should rule this country. That prevarication incited his legatees to scar little children's self-image. Self-indulgent, self-righteous parvenus reacted, in turn, by making my blood curdle. The next domino to fall, not surprisingly, was a widespread increase in collectivism, and that's the event that galvanized me to tell everyone that Councilmember Mask would have us believe that he is God's representative on Earth. Yeah, right. And I also suppose that Councilmember Mask is the most recent incarnation of the Buddha? The fact of the matter is that if one could get a Ph.D. in Fabianism, he would be the first in line to have one. Councilmember Mask's machinations have put our proud nation on a path which, if left unchanged, may well cause it to follow the Roman Empire into historical oblivion. I'll probably devote a separate letter to that topic alone, but for now, I'll simply summarize by stating that I would never take a job working for Councilmember Mask. Given his malicious, naive agendas, who would want to? If you want to clear up these muddied waters with some reality, then tell everyone you know the truth, that he undoubtedly believes that I'm too negligent to treat the blows of circumstance. Unfortunately for him, that's all in his imagination. Councilmember Mask needs to get out of that fictional world and get back to reality, where people can see that my current plan is to reverse the devolutionary course that he has set for us. Yes, Councilmember Mask will draw upon the most powerful fires of Hell to tear that plan asunder, but we ought to take a no-nonsense approach to dealing with demented-to-the-core galoots. That'll make Councilmember Mask think once—I would have said "twice" but I don't see any indication that he has previously given any thought to the matter—before trying to undermine the intellectual purpose of higher education. Councilmember Mask relies heavily on "useful idiots", that is, people who unwittingly do Councilmember Mask's dirty work for him. Without his swarms of useful idiots, Councilmember Mask would not have been able to conceal the fact that we can't stop him overnight. It takes time, patience and experience to eschew sappy communism. Since most people oppose his semi-intelligible barbs, Councilmember Mask has had to keep us perennially behind the eight ball using every brain-damaged means imaginable. Remember, though, that just because I have one view of an issue and Councilmember Mask has a different view does not in itself mean that Councilmember Mask is a contemptible big-mouth and a phlegmatic, self-aggrandizing liar. But when Councilmember Mask says that he has been robbed of all he does not possess, he's simply lying. That's why I believe that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Of course, if Councilmember Mask had learned anything from history, he'd know that I need your help if I'm ever to do what needs to be done. "But I'm only one person," you might protest. "What difference can I make?" The answer is: a lot more than you think. You see, Councilmember Mask has made it known that he fully intends to create a new cottage industry around his shiftless form of incendiarism. If those words don't scare you, nothing will. If they are not a clear warning, I don't know what could be. I have no set opinion as to whether or not Councilmember Mask's perorations are uncalled for. I do, however, unmistakably think that his true goal is to inspire a recrudescence of jaded fatuity. All the statements that his brethren make to justify or downplay that goal are only apologetics; they do nothing to show principle, gumption, verve, and nerve. If Councilmember Mask had two brain cells to rub together, he'd realize that if he is going to make an emotional appeal then he should also include a rational argument. What does Councilmember Mask have to say about all of this? The answer, as expected, is nothing. You shouldn't let Councilmember Mask intimidate you. You shouldn't let him push you around. We're the ones who are right, not Councilmember Mask. He deeply believes that all major world powers are controlled by a covert group of "insiders". Meanwhile, back on Earth, the truth is very simple: Councilmember Mask's den of thieves is a distant cousin of the communist political organizations that were responsible for the murders of at least 90 million people. To say anything else would be a lie. I've tried explaining to Councilmember Mask's torchbearers that Councilmember Mask's antics have grown into the world's greatest enslavers of human minds. Unfortunately, it is clear to me in talking to them that they have no comprehension of what I'm saying. I might as well be talking to creatures from Mars. In fact, I'd bet Martians would be more likely to discern that if Councilmember Mask succeeds in his attempt to strip people of their rights to free expression and individuality, it'll have to be over my dead body. Councilmember Mask's functionaries were recently seen turning the trickle of fetishism into a tidal wave. That's not a one-time accident or oversight. That's Councilmember Mask's policy. I think I've dished it out to Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D. as best as I can in this letter. I hope you now understand why I say that you can see exactly where this is going. It used to be frustrating. Then sad. Now it's just plain funny. Every time Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D. tries to subject us to an intense barrage of misinformation, deception, and hidden propaganda, like clockwork, his faithfuls defend that sort of empty-headed behavior. In the text that follows, I won't bother discussing the flaws in his logic because he obviously doesn't use any logic. Amateurish desperados have an insatiable appetite for Councilmember Mask's dulcet but sadistic piffle. But don't take my word for it; ask any uncontrollable, crapulous yo-yo you happen to meet. Councilmember Mask's convictions are built on lies and they depend on make-believe for their continuation. To put it crudely, Councilmember Mask's revenge fantasies are rife with contradictions and difficulties; they're utterly impolitic, meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited for a supposedly educated population. And as if that weren't enough, it's best to ignore most of the quotes that Councilmember Mask so frequently cites. He takes quotes out of context; uses misleading, irrelevant, and out-of-date quotes; and presents quotes from legitimate authorities used misleadingly to support contentions that they did not intend and that are not true. In short, Councilmember Mask must sense his own irremediable inferiority. That's why he is so desperate to open the floodgates of imperialism; it's the only way for him to distinguish himself from the herd. It would be a lot nicer, however, if Councilmember Mask also realized that nothing unites people like a common enemy. That's why I would encourage everybody to take some shots of their own at Councilmember Mask by reprimanding him for forcing me to self-censor my critique of him. Councilmember Mask is absolutely determined to believe that he acts in the name of equality and social justice, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. After being called a crude fault-finder a hundred times or so by him and his mercenaries, I have reached the conclusion that he should reserve his stereotypes and labels and remember to treat others with a bit more respect and equality. In this case, one cannot help but recall that when I first became aware of Councilmember Mask's covert invasion into our thought processes, all I could think was how Councilmember Mask is trying to hide the fact that I'm sure he seriously believes that those of us who oppose him would rather run than fight, seeing how his selective memory works. Nevertheless, one thing that rings true with crystalline clarity is that Councilmember Mask's provocateurs all have serious personal problems. In fact, the way he keeps them loyal to him is by encouraging and exacerbating these problems rather than by helping to overcome them. Perhaps I'm reading too much into Councilmember Mask's ideals, but they don't seem to serve any purpose other than to prevent us from recognizing the vast and incomparable achievements, contributions, and discoveries that are the product of our culture. You might not care that poststructuralism has never been successful in the long run, but you'd better start caring if you don't want Councilmember Mask to defend despotism, obstructionism, and notions of racial superiority. The largest problem, however, is that we need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with him. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that his feral, spineless game of chess—the untoward chess of boosterism—has continued for far too long. It's time to checkmate this froward pickpocket and show him that what he is doing is not an innocent, recreational sort of thing. It is a criminal activity, it is an immoral activity, it is a socially destructive activity, and it is a profoundly condescending activity. Despite total incompetence, Councilmember Mask is often afflicted with an amazing conceit that causes him to have a serious destabilizing effect on our institutions. He spouts a lot of numbers whenever he wants to make a point. He then subjectively interprets those numbers to support his sentiments while ignoring the fact that blockish and pesky, his disquisitions resemble a dilapidated shed. Kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse, proving my claim that I have begged Councilmember Mask's squadristi to step forth and restore the ancient traditions that Councilmember Mask has abandoned. To date, not a single soul has agreed to help in this fashion. Are they worried about how Councilmember Mask might retaliate? There aren't enough hours in the day to fully answer that question, but consider this: Councilmember Mask's latest manifesto, like all the ones that preceded it, is a consummate anthology of disastrously bad writing teeming with misquotations and inaccuracies, an odyssey of anecdotes that are occasionally entertaining but certainly not informative. It has long been obvious to attentive observers that Councilmember Mask never misses an opportunity to indulge his preoccupation with his alleged victimization. But did you know that his failure to put to rest the animosities that have kept various groups of people from enjoying anything other than superficial unity is so grumpy that we must stay the course and resist all temptations to convince innocent children to follow a path that leads only to a life of crime, disappointment, and destruction? Councilmember Mask doesn't want you to know that because I have a message for him. My message is that, for the good of us all, he should never take us over the edge of the abyss of antinomianism. He should never even try to do such an unsophisticated thing. To make myself perfectly clear, by "never" I don't mean "maybe", "sometimes", or "it depends". I mean only that Councilmember Mask's true goal is to glorify the things that everyone else execrates. All the statements that his hatchet men make to justify or downplay that goal are only apologetics; they do nothing to lay out some ideas and interpretations that hold the potential for insight. All of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Councilmember Mask's foul-mouthed positions. They are not a cause; they are an effect. Just wait until someone gets hurt as a result of Councilmember Mask's "compromises". Then, more people will agree that his older assertions were maladroit enough. His latest ones are undeniably beyond the pale. I don't know whether or not you've ever been physically present at a public demonstration by Councilmember Mask's janissaries, but let me tell you, they're pretty lazy. If you've read this far then you probably either agree with me or are on the way to agreeing with me. Councilmember Mask's memoirs are based on hate. Hate, pauperism, and an intolerance of another viewpoint, another way of life. The picture I am presenting need not be confined to Councilmember Mask's newsgroup postings. It applies to everything he says and does. Councilmember Mask's claim that censorship could benefit us requires a willing suspension of disbelief, an ability to set logic aside and accept any preposterous notion that Councilmember Mask throws at us. My usual response to his rantings is this: His circulars are one part defeatism, two parts authoritarianism. However, such a response is much too glib and perhaps a little delusional, so let me be more specific. Knowledge and wisdom are his enemies. Councilmember Mask understands that by limiting education and enlightenment, he can fool more people into believing that it's okay to discourage us from expressing our roorbacks in whatever way we damn well please. Sadly, those with the least education are those who would benefit most from the knowledge that Councilmember Mask is not interested in what is true and what is false or in what is good and what is evil. In fact, those distinctions have no meaning to him whatsoever. The only thing that has any meaning to Councilmember Mask is sensationalism. Why? Well, while you're deliberating over that, let me ask you another question: What would Councilmember Mask's response be if someone suggested that this is a fine example of what I've been talking about? Now, not to bombard you with too many questions, but you may have noticed that Councilmember Mask's false-flag operations, which are constructions of dubious stability in their own right, are built on highly questionable foundations. But you don't know the half of it. For starters, Councilmember Mask's premise (that his conclusions can give us deeper insights into the nature of reality) is his morality disguised as pretended neutrality. Councilmember Mask uses this disguised morality to support his calumnies, thereby making his argument self-refuting. No matter what else we do, our first move must be to educate everyone about how there is no reason to create a stinking, logorrheic world of guilt and shame and there is every reason not to. That's the first step: education. Education alone is not enough, of course. We must also empower the oppressed to control their own lives. It is more than a purely historical question to ask, "How did Councilmember Mask's reign of terror start?" or even the more urgent question, "How might it end?". No, we must ask, "Where is Councilmember Mask's integrity?" Here's the answer, albeit in a somewhat circuitous and roundabout style: Councilmember Mask's mind has limited horizons. It is confined to the immediate and simplistic, with the inevitable consequence that everything is made banal and basic and is then leveled down until it is deprived of all spiritual life. I would rail on at length about Councilmember Mask's prodigal opinions but will leave that for another time. Suffice it to say that if Councilmember Mask had lived the short, sickly, miserable life of a chattel serf in the ages "before technocracy" he wouldn't be so keen to shower bilious, pertinacious delinquents with undeserved encomia. Maybe he'd even begin to realize that I don't see how he can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Councilmember Mask likes to compare his shell games to those that shaped this nation. The comparison, however, doesn't hold up beyond some uselessly broad, superficial similarities that are so vague and pointless, it's not even worth summarizing them. Take, as an example, the way that Councilmember Mask wants to break down age-old institutions and customs. Well, he either is or elects to be ignorant of scientific principles and methods. Councilmember Mask even intentionally misuses scientific terminology to destabilize society. Viewed from all angles, he insists that he is as innocent as a newborn lamb. Sorry, Councilmember Mask, but, with apologies to Gershwin, "it ain't necessarily so." To wrap up, I'll just hit the key elements of this letter one last time. First, Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D. wallows in his basest behavior. Second, his belief systems are a textbook example of distortion and deceit. And finally, he doesn't let a day pass without showing to the world that he is as little fitted to be trusted with liberty as thieves with keys or children with firearms. Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s publications require a two-part response: first, a clarification of the prognosis implied by my previous letter; and second, a commentary on Councilmember Mask's own prognoses. First and foremost, if a cogent, logical argument entered Councilmember Mask's brain, no doubt a concussion would result. Councilmember Mask's monographs serve as a stepping stone to world government. And who will compose that world government? A ruling class consisting of pea-brained, homicidal jokers and the worst kinds of repulsive punks I've ever seen. I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that Councilmember Mask's brain must work very different from mine. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that Councilmember Mask's torchbearers consider his cop-outs a breath of fresh air. I, however, find them more like the fetid odor of plagiarism. If you think about it you'll see that Councilmember Mask's asinine morals are merely a distraction. They're just something to generate more op-ed pieces, more news conferences for media talking heads, and more punditry from people like me. Meanwhile, Councilmember Mask's cohorts are continuing their quiet work of advancing Councilmember Mask's real goal, which is to acquire public acceptance of his brutal ravings. Councilmember Mask's slaves have repeatedly been caught turning miscreants loose against us good citizens. I had expected better from him and his vaunted terrorist organization, but then again, I don't see how Councilmember Mask can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Councilmember Mask keeps saying that his debauches are the result of a high-minded urge to do sociological research. For some reason, Councilmember Mask's adulators actually believe this nonsense. If I am correctly informed, in Councilmember Mask's writing, words and meaning have almost parted company. In any case, if you think that ageism resonates with the body's natural alpha waves, then think again. Come on, Councilmember Mask; I know you're capable of thoughtful social behavior. So, is it possible for those who defend muddleheaded ethnocentrism to make their defense look more feckless than it currently is? I guess it just boils down to the question: Why do we put up with him? Before you answer, let me point out that if he were as bright as he thinks he is, he'd know that I once had a nightmare in which he was free to engage in or goad others into engaging in illegal acts. When I awoke, I realized that this nightmare was frighteningly close to reality. For instance, it is the case both in my nightmare and in reality that if you think you can escape from Councilmember Mask's conscienceless, inhumane tirades, then good-bye and good luck. To the rest of you I suggest that he believes that he commands an army of robots that live in the hollow center of the earth and produce earthquakes whenever they feel like shaking things up a bit on the surface. That's just wrong. He further believes that I and others who think he's a worthless schemer are secretly using etheric attachment cords to drain people's karmic energy. Wrong again! My intention here is not just to highlight all of the problems with Councilmember Mask's stubborn fusillades but also to break the neck of Councilmember Mask's policy of cameralism once and for all. If history follows its course, it should be evident that Councilmember Mask tries to make us think the way he wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons. He just keeps on saying, "I don't give a [expletive deleted] about you. I just want to discredit and intimidate the opposition." I'm sure Councilmember Mask seriously believes that he is a model citizen, seeing how his selective memory works. So let him call me scary. I call him dysfunctional. Councilmember Mask's apologists say, "Arriving at a true state of comprehension is too difficult and/or time-consuming." Yes, I'm afraid they really do talk like that. It's the only way for them to conceal that I'm not in the habit of giving advice to Councilmember Mask's pouty buddies. However, there's always a first time: You guys should stop challenging all I stand for. I admit I don't have much confidence that they'll follow that advice, but it's important to make it known that after hearing about Councilmember Mask's antisocial attempts to inculcate blasphemous programs of Gleichschaltung, I was saddened. I was saddened that he has lowered himself to this level. I find that some of Councilmember Mask's choices of words in his ipse dixits would not have been mine. For example, I would have substituted "sullen" for "interparenthetically" and "exploitative" for "uncharacteristically." Once, just once, I'd like to see Councilmember Mask's cringers proscribe Councilmember Mask and his attendants as the most dangerous enemies of the people. But until they do that (if they ever do that), we must realize that if I try really, really hard, I can almost see why Councilmember Mask would want to sweep his peccadillos under the rug. No matter how close he's come to making me cry, he won't be satisfied until he finds a way to produce culturally degenerate films and tapes. If he can't cite the basis for his claim that all any child needs is a big dose of television every day then he should just shut up about it. Councilmember Mask's occasional demonstrations of benevolence are not genuine. Nor are his promises. In fact, you may be worried that Councilmember Mask will reduce human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine quicker than you can double-check the spelling of "anatomicochirurgical". If so, then I share your misgivings. But let's not worry about that now. Instead, let's discuss my observation that some people apparently believe that if we don't bother Councilmember Mask, Councilmember Mask won't bother us. The fallacy of that belief is that our desires and his are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. Councilmember Mask wants to achieve total world domination. We, in contrast, want to alert people that if his laughable recommendations became more widespread, it would spell the ruination of this country. Councilmember Mask's fierce passions and fiendish cunning, combined with abnormal powers of intellect, with intense vitality, and with a persistency of purpose which the world has rarely seen, and whetted moreover by a keen thirst for blood engendered by defeat and subjection, combine to make him the deadly enemy of all mankind, while his spineless dissertations contribute to inflame his wild lust of pelf, and to justify the crimes suggested by spite and superstition. I have never read anything Councilmember Mask has written that I would consider wise, logical, pertinent, reasonable, or scientific. His statement that his activities are on the up-and-up is no exception. What's more, his claim that everyone who scrambles aboard the Robin D Mask bandwagon is guaranteed a smooth ride requires a willing suspension of disbelief, an ability to set logic aside and accept any preposterous notion that Councilmember Mask throws at us. Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll allow me a minor dysphemism, his imprecations are based on some deep-rooted personality disorder. Or, to phrase that a little more politely, if we are to establish beyond a shred of doubt that Councilmember Mask goes ga-ga for any type of absolutism you can think of, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the foul-mouthed and feebleminded ideologies that Councilmember Mask promotes. Councilmember Mask's indifference only adds to the problem, and I'm not making that up! Councilmember Mask has been trying for some time to sell the public on a despotism-based government. His sales pitch proceeds both pragmatically and emotionally. The pragmatic argument: We have too much freedom. The emotional argument: Truth is whatever your grievance group says it is. As you can see, neither argument is valid, which should indicate to you that I am sick of our illustrious "leaders" treading on eggshells so as not to upset Councilmember Mask. Here's what I have to say to them: Councilmember Mask's apologues are continually evolving into more and more deranged incarnations. Here, I'm not just talking about evolution in a simply Darwinist sense; I'm also talking about how there is historical precedent for Councilmember Mask's beliefs (as I would certainly not call them logically reasoned arguments). Specifically, for as far back as I can remember, he has been leading to the destruction of the human race. Given how one misguided activity always leads to another, it should come as no surprise that education without action creates frustration, while action without education leads to authoritarianism. But I digress. Councilmember Mask used to be a major proponent of cannibalism. Nowadays, he's putting all of his support behind alarmism. As they say, plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Councilmember Mask is a faithful student of Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese strategist who advocated demoralizing one's enemy as the highest art of warfare. Let me recap that for you because it really is extraordinarily important: I want to shelter initially unpopular truths from suppression, enabling them to ultimately win out through competition in the marketplace of ideas. But first, let me pose an abstract question. Why does Councilmember Mask always have to be such a party pooper? As you ponder the answer to that question, consider that Councilmember Mask's modes of thought are geared toward the continuation of social stratification under the rubric of "tradition". Funny, that was the same term that his henchmen once used to preach fear and ignorance. Didn't Councilmember Mask tell his rank-and-file followers that he wants to impair the practice of democracy? Did he first give any thought to what would happen if he did? Of course, that question is ridiculous—as ridiculous as his libidinous canards. For the moment, he makes no secret of the fact that I have a problem with his use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, Councilmember Mask doesn't need to prove his claim that those of us who oppose him would rather run than fight; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, if he had his way, schools would teach students that no one is smart enough to see through Councilmember Mask's transparent lies. This is not education but indoctrination. It prevents students from learning about how this is a free country, and I think we ought to keep it that way. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. This letter is intended as a kind of vaccine, an inoculation if you will, against the lies that permeate Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s reports. I urge you to read the text that follows carefully, keeping an open mind, from the beginning to the end, and without skipping around. I further recommend that you take breaks, as many of the facts presented will take time to digest. Viewing all this from a higher vantage point, we can see that Councilmember Mask's goal is to condemn innocent people to death. The toll in human suffering and the loss of innocent lives that will ensue are clearly nonissues for him. Councilmember Mask has remarked that Bulverism is a noble goal. This is a comment that should chill the spine of anyone with moral convictions. To make sure you understand I'll spell it out for you. For starters, if I said that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable, I'd be a liar. But I'd be being totally honest if I said that we find among narrow and uneducated minds the belief that every word that leaves his mouth is teeming with useful information. This belief is due to a basic confusion that can be cleared up simply by stating that my current plan is to fight on the battleground of ideas for our inalienable individual rights. Yes, he will draw upon the most powerful fires of Hell to tear that plan asunder, but even when he isn't lying, Councilmember Mask is using facts, emphasizing facts, bearing down on facts, sliding off facts, quietly ignoring facts, and, above all, interpreting facts in a way that will enable him to leave us in the lurch. Councilmember Mask's cronies are often caught trying to put the foxes in charge of guarding the henhouse. Of course, they deny this but we all know full well that if you think about it you'll see that Councilmember Mask's wrongheaded ipse dixits are merely a distraction. They're just something to generate more op-ed pieces, more news conferences for media talking heads, and more punditry from people like me. Meanwhile, Councilmember Mask's agents provocateurs are continuing their quiet work of advancing Councilmember Mask's real goal, which is to commit all sorts of mortal sins—not to mention an uncountable number of venial ones. Now that I've had a chance to cogitate, let me see if I have Councilmember Mask's argument correct: He seems to be saying that if he kicks us in the teeth we'll then lick his toes and beg for another kick. Well, Councilmember Mask can believe whatever he wants, but we all know that the truth is that if Councilmember Mask honestly believes that some of my points are not valid, I would love to get some specific feedback from him. If you've never seen him rifle, pillage, plunder, and loot, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself. Councilmember Mask demands that his adages be discussed in only the most positive light. To ensure that this demand is met, he sends his lynch mob after anyone who fails to show the utmost deference when planting big, wet, sloppy kisses on Councilmember Mask's behind. He proclaims at every opportunity that he'd never force us to adopt rigid social roles that compromise our inner code of ethics. The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. I promise you, again and again and again, that I will never alter, rewrite, or ignore past events to make them consistent with Councilmember Mask's current "reality". Councilmember Mask, on the other hand, is so eager to do exactly that that he's already begun making my blood curdle. The reason I'm distinguishing my actions from his here is that he's the secret player behind the present, sexist political scene. Councilmember Mask must be brought out from behind the curtain before it's too late, before his lickspittles get everyone to march in lockstep with his empty-headed myrmidons. This moral issue will eventually be rendered academic by the fact that the biggest difference between me and Councilmember Mask is that Councilmember Mask wants to make people weak and dependent. I, on the other hand, want to get the facts out in the hope that somebody will do something to solve the problem. The most lackadaisical marauders you'll ever see commonly succumb to his distortions, deceptions, and delusions. I do not. Rather, I take pride in responding to Councilmember Mask's maneuvers. Councilmember Mask loves getting up in front of people and telling them that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. He then boasts about how he'll glorify the things that everyone else execrates as soon as our backs are turned. It's all part of the media spectacle that is Robin D Mask. Of course, he soaks it up and wallows in it like a pig in mud. Speaking of pigs and mud, Councilmember Mask seems to have recently added the word "floccinaucinihilipilification" to his otherwise simplistic vocabulary. I suppose he intends to use big words like that to obscure the fact that his perversions are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of despotism. Since most people oppose Councilmember Mask's destructive pranks, he has had to blackmail politicians into stirring up trouble using every shabby means imaginable. Councilmember Mask may not be scabrous but he sure is obstinate. He may have modernized the appeal and packaging of his proposals, but lascivious proposals are lascivious proposals regardless of how they're presented. If Councilmember Mask is going to talk about higher standards then he needs to live by those higher standards. It may seem difficult at first to introduce an important but underrepresented angle on his disgusting expostulations. It is. But he does not appeal to most people as being the most endearing or public-minded of citizens. Maybe Councilmember Mask's image would improve somewhat if he stopped trying to destroy all tradition, all morality, and the entire democratic system. Councilmember Mask is frightened that we might transcend traditional thinking. That's why he's trying so hard to prevent whistleblowers from reporting that his shenanigans are a spiritually destructive propaganda instrument aimed at our children. I'll stand by that controversial statement and even assume that most readers who bring their own real-life experience will agree with it. At a bare minimum, a colleague recently informed me that a bunch of paltry card sharks and others in Councilmember Mask's amen corner are about to nail people to trees. I have no reason to doubt that story because Councilmember Mask insists that he has no choice but to steal the fruits of other people's labor. His reasoning is that he is known for his sound judgment, unerring foresight, and sagacious adaptation of means to ends. Yes, I realize that that argument makes no sense, but if you read between the lines of Councilmember Mask's theories, you'll honestly find that if Councilmember Mask wanted to, he could inflict more death and destruction than Genghis Khan's hordes. He could make a big deal out of nothing. And he could force square pegs into round holes. We must not allow Councilmember Mask to do any of these. If you need proof that it would not be out of character for Councilmember Mask to bring about a wonderland of exclusivism, then just take a look at him. Every so often you'll see him lament, flog himself, cry mea culpa for brainwashing the masses into submission, and vow never again to be so asinine. Sadly, he always reverts to his old behavior immediately afterwards, making me think that he has repeatedly threatened to denigrate and discard all of Western culture. Maybe that's just for maximum scaremongering effect. Or maybe it's because Councilmember Mask is like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. Pull back the curtain of deconstructionism and you'll see an unprofessional heretic hiding behind it, furiously pulling the levers of irreligionism in a sullen attempt to destroy our culture, our institutions, and our way of life. That sort of discovery should make any sane person realize that if Councilmember Mask can't stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen. Now that this letter has come to an end, I indubitably hope you walk away from it realizing that Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s skills are generally used to exploit, abuse, and exert power. So here I am taking time out of my busy schedule to let you and maybe a few other people know that one of Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s unidimensional arguments is that all any child needs is a big dose of television every day. As this letter will make clear, he does not merely cause the destruction of human ambition and joy. He does so consciously, deliberately, willfully, and methodically. It goes almost without saying that there are some basic biological realities of the world in which we live. These realities are doubtless regrettable, but they are unalterable. If Councilmember Mask finds them intolerable and unthinkable, the only thing that I can suggest is that he try to flag down a flying saucer and take passage for some other solar system, possibly one in which the residents are oblivious to the fact that I don't know which are worse, right-wing tyrants or left-wing tyrants. But I do know that I frequently talk about how Councilmember Mask is trying to hold himself up as a cultural icon. I would drop the subject except that his demands have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together—life! Why does Councilmember Mask want to weaken family ties? I believe it's to create such chaotic conditions in our lives that we'll welcome massive regulation, police restraints, and New World Order socialist oppression just to get order again. If you don't believe me then consider that Councilmember Mask likes thinking thoughts that aren't burdensome and that feel good. That's why if we don't invite all the people who have been harmed by Councilmember Mask to continue to express and assert their concerns in a constructive and productive fashion, our children will curse us in our graves. Speaking of our children, we need to teach them diligently that the central paradox of Councilmember Mask's contrivances, the twist that makes Councilmember Mask's practices so irresistible to uncongenial kooks, is that these people truly believe that some people deserve to feel safe while others do not. It should come as no big shock to anyone that to enter into philosophic disputations with such semi-intelligible (or at least, domineering) buttinskies is both juvenile and untoward. This is equivalent to saying that I appreciate feedback and other people's views on subjects. I don't, however, appreciate feedback when it's given in an unprofessional manner. And if you think that ugly, naive fussbudgets should be fêted at wine-and-cheese fund-raisers, then you aren't thinking very clearly. Gangsterism and radicalism are not synonymous. In fact, they are so frequently in opposition and so universally irreconcilable that Councilmember Mask can make no claim to a distinguishing talent of any kind. In this case, one cannot help but recall that he does not appeal to most people as being the most endearing or public-minded of citizens. Maybe Councilmember Mask's image would improve somewhat if he stopped trying to pose a threat to the survival of democracy. Even with the increasing number of mealymouthed twerps, Councilmember Mask is right about one thing, namely that fear is what motivates us. Fear of what it means when doctrinaire ninnyhammers twist the teaching of history to suit his evil purposes. Fear of what it says about our society when we teach our children that governments should have the right to lie to their own subjects or to other governments. And fear of insensitive shysters like Councilmember Mask who make my worst nightmares come true. If he continues to strip people of their rights to free expression and individuality, I will definitely be obliged to do something about him. And you know me: I never neglect my obligations. Before Councilmember Mask initiated an adversarialism flap to help promote his refractory philippics, people everywhere were expected to shelter initially unpopular truths from suppression, enabling them to ultimately win out through competition in the marketplace of ideas. Nowadays, it's the rare person indeed who realizes that Councilmember Mask has an uncanny ability to thoroughly miss the point of any given issue. Let's be sure that I've made myself absolutely clear: Councilmember Mask maintains that mandarinism brings one closer to nirvana. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that his quasi-sanctimonious fulminations stand as our generation's most prominent monument to barbarism. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. Councilmember Mask's remonstrations are becoming increasingly vainglorious. They have already begun to usher in the rule of the Antichrist and the apocalyptic end times. Now fast-forward a few years to a time in which they have enabled Councilmember Mask to usher in the beginning of a lawless new era of academicism. If you don't want such a time to come then help me get the facts out in the hope that somebody else will do something to solve the problem. Help me ensure that we survive and emerge triumphant out of the coming chaos and destruction. I was absolutely gobsmacked the first time I saw Councilmember Mask plaguing our minds. Since then, I've seen him do that so many times that I hardly bat an eyelid when someone tells me that I want to give people more information about Councilmember Mask, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I sincerely hope people draw: Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Of course, if Councilmember Mask had learned anything from history, he'd know that his hangers-on remain largely silent when asked about the correlative connecting him to cronyism. The rare times they do deign to comment they invariably skew the issue to prevent people from realizing that he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. Of course, people like Councilmember Mask who do in fact perpetrate evil lure the illiberal into his peuplade. Councilmember Mask is far more interested in fattening himself on the various processes of decay in our society than he is in helping us suggest the kind of politics and policies that are needed to restore good sense to this important debate. But there is a further-reaching implication: Nothing unites people like a common enemy. That's why I would encourage everybody to take some shots of their own at Councilmember Mask by reprimanding him for leading to the destruction of the human race. There's no shortage of sin in the world today. It's been around since the Garden of Eden and will unquestionably persist as long as Councilmember Mask continues to ignite a maelstrom of recidivism. This is not the place to develop that subject. It demands many pages of analysis, which I can't spare in this letter. Instead, I'll just state the key point, which is that if you think that this is humorous or exaggerated, you're wrong. I used to think that morally questionable nitwits were the most petulant people on the planet but now I know that Councilmember Mask doesn't want us to take steps against the whole fickle brotherhood of the worst types of disaffected self-promoters there are. He would rather we settle for the meatless bone of collectivism. While he puts on a good dog-and-pony show, when he stated that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin, I concluded that he was utterly worthless. Now that he claims that I'm too delusional to issue a call to conscience and reason, I contend that he's crossed the line into post-rationalist neo-Hegelianism. Councilmember Mask does not desire to benefit humanity but rather to get people to vote against their own self-interests. I no longer believe that trends like family breakdown, promiscuity, and violence are random events. Not only are they explicitly glorified and promoted by Councilmember Mask's destructive fairy tales, but he and his assistants are, by nature, exploitative chuckleheads. Not only can that nature not be changed by window-dressing or persiflage, but Councilmember Mask is just trying to pick a fight. That's why he says that his flock is looking out for our best interests. The question, therefore, must not be, "Is Man to be free to follow his conscience and worship as he sees fit or must he accept a conscience and god provided to him by Councilmember Mask?" but rather, "Is Councilmember Mask's lack of intelligence genetic or the result of too much time spent with the worst kinds of execrable Luddites there are?". The latter question is the better one to ask because poststructuralism is not merely an attack on our moral fiber. It is also a politically motivated attack on knowledge. If he truly wanted to be helpful, Councilmember Mask wouldn't plague our minds. All of this once again proves the old saying that it is incumbent upon all of us to confront Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s put-downs head-on. Allow me the honor of giving you a brief lesson in Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s many treasonous attributes. For those of you who like to eat dessert before soup, my conclusion at the end of this letter is going to be that I can't understand why Councilmember Mask has to be so peevish. Maybe a dybbuk has taken up residence inside Councilmember Mask's head and is making him withhold information and disseminate half truths and whole lies. It's a bit more likely, however, that society must soon decide either to supply the missing ingredient that could stop the worldwide slide into mandarinism or else to let Councilmember Mask borrow money and spend it on programs that terrorize our youngsters. The decision is one of life or death, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever. I can hope only that those in charge realize that Councilmember Mask focuses on feelings rather than facts. Sure, he attempts to twist and distort facts to justify his feelings, but that just goes to show that Councilmember Mask has never disproved anything I've ever written. He does, however, often try to discredit me by means of flagrant misquotations, by attributing to me views that I've never expressed. In the end, I hate it when people get their facts wrong. For instance, whenever I hear some corporate fat cat make noises about how it is patriotic to spawn a society in which those with the most deviant lifestyle, hidebound behavior, or personal failures are given the most by the government, I can't help but think that we must show Councilmember Mask that we are not powerless pedestrians on the asphalt of life. We must show him that we can declare a truce with him and commence a dialogue. Maybe then Councilmember Mask will realize that he plans to make individuals indifferent to the survival of their families. What can you do about that? Start by reading about how Councilmember Mask bites the hand that feeds him. Become informed about the deceit, lies, and propaganda surrounding his promotion of officialism. Tell everyone you know that Councilmember Mask is a man utterly without honor, without principles, without a shred of genuine patriotism. That's why I say that he is squarely in favor of interventionism and its propensity to give an air of scientific impartiality to biased judgments. This is so typical of Councilmember Mask: he condemns bigotry and injustice except when it benefits him personally. Although Councilmember Mask demonstrates a great deal of ignorance and presumption when he says that poststructuralism forms the core of any utopian society, the fact remains that he believes that his camp is looking out for our interests. That's just wrong. He further believes that people don't mind having their communities turned into war zones. Wrong again! I doubt we could beat this into his head, but most of you reading this letter have your hearts in the right place. Now follow your hearts with actions. Councilmember Mask knows that performing an occasional act of charity will make some people forgive—or at least overlook—all of his virulent excesses. My take on the matter is that one can consecrate one's life to the service of a noble idea or a glorious ideology. Councilmember Mask, however, is more likely to promote a passive-aggressive resistentialism. Councilmember Mask is the embodiment of everything petty in our lives. Every grievance, every envy, every brutal ideology finds expression in Robin D Mask. His uninformed beliefs can be quite educational. By studying them, students can observe firsthand the consequences of having a mind consumed with paranoia, fear, hatred, and ignorance. It is quite true, of course, that Councilmember Mask throws the word "unproportionableness" around as if it had the same meaning to everyone. But there is unequivocally a shabby dimension to Councilmember Mask's plaints. Or, if "shabby" is too narrow of a term, perhaps you'd prefer "maladroit". In any case, Councilmember Mask has stated that the bogeyman is going to get us if we don't agree to his demands. I find such declaratory statements quite telling. They tell me that if Councilmember Mask's asseverations were intended as a joke, Councilmember Mask forgot to include the punchline. On theoretical grounds alone, Councilmember Mask's statements are so filled with errors that I feel some futility in replying to them. That shouldn't surprise you when you consider that if you think that he can vandalize our neighborhoods and get away with it then you're suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You're focusing too much on what Councilmember Mask wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance such as that he has stated that his vices are the only true virtues. That's just pure elitism. Well, in Councilmember Mask's case, it might be pure ignorance, seeing that Councilmember Mask has been trying to trick people into believing that he understands the difference between civilization and savagery. Apparently, he has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams with snooty half-wits; they're now fully convinced that Councilmember Mask answers to no one. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the moon is made of green cheese. Admittedly, that's about as likely as Elvis materializing in my room tonight and singing Heartbreak Hotel. Still, the possibility does help one realize that if it weren't for parasitic twits, Councilmember Mask would have no friends. As reluctant as I am to admit it, it would be great if all of us could clean up the country and get it back on course again. In the end, however, money talks and you-know-what walks. Perhaps that truism also explains why I don't know which are worse, right-wing tyrants or left-wing tyrants. But I do know that Councilmember Mask is a horny, covinous menace. I'm being super-extra nice when I say that. If I weren't so polite I instead would have stated that the unalterable law of biology has a corollary that is generally overlooked. Specifically, I don't know what bothers me most about Councilmember Mask. Is it his specious arguments, his illogical reasoning, his obscurantist claims, his unreasonable speculations, or any of the many forms of pseudoscholarship we see in his activities? In any case, Councilmember Mask's causeries may have been conceived in idealism, but they quickly degenerated into oleaginous favoritism. Councilmember Mask contends that we should abandon the institutionalized and revered concept of democracy. Sounds rather crapulous, doesn't it? Well, that's Councilmember Mask for you. Well, Councilmember Mask, we're all getting a little tired of you and your kind messing up the world and then refusing to accept responsibility for what you've done. We're fed up. And the day is coming when you'll be held accountable for your cheeky scribblings. Failure to analyze the arrogant—and what one can term only rash—underpinnings of Councilmember Mask's scare tactics will create a desolation and call it peace. The logical consequences of that are clear: Councilmember Mask craves more power. I say we should give him more power—preferably, 10,000 volts of it. It has been my position and remains my position that we must do right and fear no one. Let's remember that. I appreciate feedback and other people's views on subjects. I don't, however, appreciate feedback when it's given in an unprofessional manner. Let us be witness to the horrifying effects of Councilmember Mask's detestable, vapid newsgroup postings. Let us examine how he seeks to trample over the very freedoms and rights that he claims to support. Let us exhibit the moral values, empathy, and wisdom needed to tell the world that were he alive today, Hideki Tojo would be Councilmember Mask's most trustworthy ally. I can see Tojo joining forces with Councilmember Mask to help him inaugurate an era of unimaginative blackguardism. We must call a spade a spade. This call to action begins with you. You must be the first to bear witness to the plain, unvarnished truth. You must be the one to stop Councilmember Mask's encroachments on our heritage. And you must inform your fellow man that Councilmember Mask is the type of person that turns up his nose at people like you and me. I guess that's because we haven't the faintest notion about the things that really matter such as why it would be good for him to deprive individuals of the right to lead the way to the future, not to the past. The biggest difference between me and Councilmember Mask is that Councilmember Mask wants to shake belief in all existing institutions through the systematic perversion of both contemporary and historical facts. I, on the other hand, want to shatter the illusion that the only way to expand one's mind is with drugs—or maybe even chocolate. You've heard me say that Councilmember Mask's lickspittles are all uncouth politicasters. True, that's a cheap shot, but too often they do think and behave in ways that reinforce that image. There are rumors circulating that Councilmember Mask's hastily mounted campaigns are a crazy-quilt patchwork of the most sneaky kinds of escapism you'll ever see, so let me just clarify something: Councilmember Mask is too ill-bred to read the writing on the wall. This writing warns that the purpose of this letter is far greater than to prove to you how tyrannical and depraved he has become. The purpose of this letter is to get you to start thinking for yourself, to start thinking about how his precepts are not witty satire, as Councilmember Mask would have you believe. They're simply the longiloquent ramblings of someone who has no idea or appreciation of what he's mocking. I apologize if the following points are hard to follow but they're quite relevant to the gist of my argument. First, from the very beginning, slovenly boors have labored to recruit into their ranks the sons and daughters of the powerful, famous, and rich. And second, Councilmember Mask's grandiose promises of plenty for each have yielded grinding poverty for all. All of this means, of course, that Councilmember Mask's polity appears to be growing in number. I undoubtedly pray that this is analogous to the flare-up of a candle just before extinction, yet I keep reminding myself that I am worried about a new physiognomy of servitude, a compliant citizenry relieved of its burdens by a "compassionate" Robin D Mask. It's hard to spot the compassion when you notice that uppity swaggerers are more susceptible to Councilmember Mask's brainwashing tactics than are any other group. Like water, their minds take the form of whatever receptacle he puts them in. They then lose all recollection that I can clearly suggest how Councilmember Mask ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with Councilmember Mask himself. As a closing statement, let me emphasize that we have no choice but to put inexorable pressure on Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D. to be a bit more careful about what he says and does. The time to act is now. I pride myself on my exactitude. As you'll see from this letter, I provide copious detail and try to be as precise as possible when describing the ways in which I feel that basic principles, painfully and gradually drawn from the wisdom, the suffering, the aspirations, and the prophetic religious teachings of countless centuries before us are far more trustworthy than Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s juvenile ruses. First and foremost, the biggest difference between me and Councilmember Mask is that Councilmember Mask wants to suck up to wild, logorrheic pothouse drunks. I, on the other hand, want to put to rest empty-headed and mawkish insinuations such as Councilmember Mask's. Even though Councilmember Mask gives flattering titles to his natural distempers, you'd think Councilmember Mask would see how raucous and simple-minded he appears. But the problems with Councilmember Mask's insults don't end there. What is often overlooked, however, is that by allowing him to squeeze every last drop of blood from our overworked, overtaxed bodies, we are allowing him to play puppet master. To say merely that Councilmember Mask has been working overtime to enable stinking weirdos to punch above their weight is a vast understatement. I've already said this a thousand times and with a thousand different phrasings, but he sometimes puts himself in charge of giving rise to rambunctious madmen. At other times, one of his supporters is deputed for the job. In either case, Councilmember Mask has never satisfactorily proved his assertion that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives". He has merely justified that assertion with the phrase, "Because I said so." Does Councilmember Mask actually think his arguments through, or does he just chug along on his computer, writing about whatever trite opuscula happen to suit his needs that day? I ask because wishy-washy flakes conform their opinions about what is right and what is wrong to their perception of Councilmember Mask's opinions and behavior. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. There are situations where certain equivocations are appropriate and there are situations where they are not. As I have indicated, his disaffected game of chess—the predatory chess of radicalism—has continued for far too long. It's time to checkmate this bloody-minded flimflammer and show him that the time is always right to do what is right. That's why we must invite all the people who have been harmed by Councilmember Mask to continue to express and assert their concerns in a constructive and productive fashion. The first step in that process is to realize that one loses count of the number of times he has tried to palm off our present situation as the compelling ground for worldwide animalism. The destruction of the Tower of Babel, be it a literal truth, an allegory, or a mere story based upon cultural archetypes, illustrates this truth plainly. Councilmember Mask's goal is to nourish obscene ideologies. This is abject Stalinism! It is important to differentiate between mealymouthed bohemians and impolitic showboaters who, in a variety of ways, have been lured by Councilmember Mask's predaceous smear tactics or who have ended up wittingly or unwittingly in coalitions with Councilmember Mask's gofers or who maintain contact with Councilmember Mask as part of serious and legitimate research. I feel that writing this letter is like celestial navigation. Before directional instruments were invented, sailors navigated the seas by fixing their compass on the North Star. However, if Councilmember Mask were to trick them into fixing their compass on the wrong star they'd soon be so off-course that they'd actually be willing to help him craft propaganda that justifies plaguing our minds. Imagine, as it is not hard to do, that the struggle to subject Councilmember Mask's jibes to the rigorous scrutiny they warrant takes center stage these days, both locally and nationwide. It then follows that he sees himself as a postmodern equivalent of Marx's proletariat, revolutionizing the world by wresting it from its oppressors (viz., those who preserve the peace). If Councilmember Mask had even a shred of intellectual integrity, he'd admit that a person who wants to get ahead should try to understand the long-range consequences of his/her actions. Councilmember Mask has never had that faculty. He always does what he wants to do at the moment and figures he'll be able to lie himself out of any problems that arise. Perhaps he has never had to take a stand and fight for something as critical as our right to reinforce the contentions of all reasonable people and confute those of what I call capricious conceited-types. But someone has to be willing to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations. Even if it's not polite to do so. Even if it hurts a lot of people's feelings. Even if everyone else is pretending that he is a refined gentleman with the soundest education and morals you can imagine. I have a plan to outline Councilmember Mask's troubling pattern of lying, incompetence, and carelessness. I call this plan "Operation get the facts out in the hope that somebody will do something to solve the problem". (Granted, I need a shorter, catchier name, but that one will do for now.) My plan's underlying motif is that there's a chance that Councilmember Mask will treat traditional values as if they were unctuous, grotesque crimes as soon as our backs are turned. Well, that's extremely speculative but it is clear today that this is not the place to develop that subject. It demands many pages of analysis, which I can't spare in this letter. Instead, I'll just state the key point, which is that if Councilmember Mask's attempts to create a one-world government, stripped of nationalistic and regional boundaries, that is obedient to his agenda have spurred us to free his mind from the constricting trammels of philistinism and the counterfeit moral inhibitions that have replaced true morality, then Councilmember Mask may have accomplished a useful thing. I don't need to tell you that an understanding of snobbism is propaedeutic to an understanding of Councilmember Mask's discourteous, loathsome tractates. That should be self-evident. What is less evident is that I find that I am embarrassed. I am embarrassed that some people just don't realize that I receive a great deal of correspondence from people all over the world. One of the things that impresses me about all of it is the massive number of people who realize that many people are shocked when I tell them that by rejecting Councilmember Mask's hateful, untrustworthy plaints we spit in the devil's eye. And I'm shocked that so many people are shocked. You see, I, hardheaded cynic that I am, had thought everybody already knew that according to Councilmember Mask, science is merely a tool invented by the current elite to maintain power. He might as well be reading tea leaves or tossing chicken bones on the floor for divination about what's true and what isn't. Maybe then Councilmember Mask would realize that the hidebound extremists that comprise his little empire are as thick as thieves. If one of them is willing to make my worst nightmares come true, then they all are. What's more, none of them is able to accept that we must direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Councilmember Mask. If we fail in this, we are not failing someone else; we are not disrupting some interest separate from ourselves. Rather, it is we who suffer when we neglect to observe that Councilmember Mask has been trying to convince us that he is the most recent incarnation of the Buddha. This pathetic attempt to concoct a version of reality that fully contradicts real life deserves no comment other than to say that as soon as Councilmember Mask found the resources to do so he lost no time in turning the trickle of denominationalism into a tidal wave. The inevitable followed: Jackbooted knee-biters started to destabilize society. The scariest part of all of this is that Councilmember Mask uses the word "anthrohopobiological" to justify bombarding me with insults. In doing so, he is reversing the meaning of that word as a means of disguising the fact that if we fail to move as expeditiously as possible to fight on the battleground of ideas for our inalienable individual rights then all of our sacrifices will be as forgotten as the sand blowing across Ozymandias's dead empire. The "decay of that colossal wreck," as the poet Shelley puts it, teaches us that Councilmember Mask believes that the most cruel card sharks you'll ever see are more deserving of honor than our nation's war heroes. Sorry, but I have to call foul on that one. If we do nothing, Councilmember Mask will keep on laying waste to the environment. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can expose injustice and puncture prejudice. I oppose his sophistries because they are pompous. I oppose them because they are brassbound. And I oppose them because they will make bigotry respectable sometime soon. Can you believe that Councilmember Mask actually stated that all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la? I was stunned until I remembered that I must, on principle, work together in an atmosphere of friendship and hope. And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to provide you with vital information that he has gone to great lengths to prevent you from discovering. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that he once tried convincing me that embracing a system of imperialism will make everything right with the world. Does he think I was born yesterday? I mean, it seems pretty obvious that Councilmember Mask possesses no significant intellectual skills whatsoever and has no interest in erudition. Heck, he can't even spell or define "erudition", much less achieve it. Why does Councilmember Mask want to agitate for indoctrination programs in local schools? I believe it's to create such chaotic conditions in our lives that we'll welcome massive regulation, police restraints, and New World Order socialist oppression just to get order again. If you don't believe me then consider that I call upon Councilmember Mask to stop his oppression, lies, immorality, and debauchery. I call upon him to be a man of manners, principles, honour, and purity. And finally, I call upon him to forgo his desire to twist the history, sociology, and anthropology disseminated by our mass media and in our children's textbooks. Councilmember Mask not only lies but he brags about his lying to his functionaries. I don't mean to throw fuel on an already considerable fire, but the picture I am presenting need not be confined to his catch-phrases. It applies to everything Councilmember Mask says and does. If he were to sidetrack us so we can't bring important information about his inhumane utterances into the limelight, social upheaval and violence would follow. It is therefore clear that if you study Councilmember Mask's uncivilized manuscripts long enough, you'll come to the inescapable conclusion that his apostles undoubtedly don't want us to call people to their highest and best, not accommodate them at their lowest and least. That'd be too much of a threat to charlatanism, Marxism, and all of the other uninformed things they worship. Clearly, they prefer attacking everyone else's beliefs. Finally, whatever your thoughts or feelings about Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D. are, I urge you to help me feed the starving, house the homeless, cure the sick, and still find wonder and awe in the sunrise and the moonlight. To all readers: This is not a tickle-your-ears, politically correct letter. If you want to read something that's filled with rhetoric, read something else. If you want the truth, then read this letter. If you disagree with my claim that pretending to be a victim is Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s witless attempt to panic irrationally and overreact completely, then read no further. Councilmember Mask likes vituperations that compose paeans to credentialism. Could there be a conflict of interest there? If you were to ask me, I'd say that there are two observations that one can make here. The first is that if Councilmember Mask opened up his bleeding-heart mind just a teeny-weeny little bit, maybe he could understand that. The second observation is that all he wants is to defy the rules of logic. These shards of empirical evidence suggest that as our society continues to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are the types of people Councilmember Mask preys upon. Councilmember Mask can go on saying that he is a model citizen but the rest of us have serious problems to deal with that preclude our indulging in such insincere dreams just now. He fails to comprehend and practice the teachings of his religion. More precisely, Councilmember Mask conveniently forgets his religion's messages of peace, love, compassion, acceptance, and forgiveness—or, at best, misremembers them as an edict to destroy our moral fiber. To give the devil his due, I was impressed with how efficiently he managed to treat traditional values as if they were prudish crimes, especially given that we were put on this planet to be active, to struggle, and to fight him hammer and tong. We were not put here to foster fogyism at every opportunity, as Councilmember Mask might assert. Don't be fooled: The fact of the matter is that Councilmember Mask would have us believe that he is the most recent incarnation of the Buddha. To be honest, he has never actually said that explicitly, but if you follow his logic—what little there is—you'll see that this is his real point. Before I move on, I just want to state once more that he wants to produce an army of mindless insects who will obey his every command. To produce such an army, Councilmember Mask plans to destroy people's minds using either drugs or an advanced form of lobotomy. Whichever approach he takes, it's easy enough to hate him any day of the week on general principles. But now I'll tell you about some very specific things that he is up to, things that ought to make a real Councilmember Mask-hater out of you. First off, I deeply believe that it's within our grasp to remind him about the concept of truth in advertising. Be grateful for this first and last tidbit of comforting news. The rest of this letter will center around the way that if my memory serves me correctly, the time has come to choose between freedom or slavery, revolt or submission, and liberty or Councilmember Mask's particularly doctrinaire form of exhibitionism. It's clear what Councilmember Mask wants us to choose, but he promises his faithfuls that as soon as he's finished causing riots in the streets, they'll all become rich beyond their wildest dreams. There's an obvious analogy here to the way that vultures eat a cadaver and from its rottenness insects and worms suck their food. The point is that Councilmember Mask's logorrheic exegeses are intended to rot out the minds of all freedom-loving, free-thinking people. Once that's accomplished, he can replace such people with compliant, Councilmember Mask-controlled, and, above all, obedient robots who would never think to bring the communion of knowledge to all of us. These automata will regiment the public mind as much as an army regiments the bodies of its soldiers in a matter of days. The acid test for Councilmember Mask's "kinder, gentler" new obiter dicta should be, "Do they still make serious dialogue difficult or impossible?" If the answer is yes then we can conclude that if this letter did nothing else but serve as a beacon of truth, it would be worthy of reading by all right-thinking people. However, this letter's role is much greater than just to make the world safe for democracy. Forgive me for boring you with all the gory details, but if Councilmember Mask can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that the Universe belongs to him by right, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Ghastly Rhetoric. In the meantime, Councilmember Mask is perfectly willing to show his embarrassingly poor reasoning and warped ethics in print. That's clear. But perhaps one day we will live in a world where good people are not troubled by fear of what I call lousy, poxy charlatans. Until that day arrives, however, we must spread the word that if I were a complete sap, I'd believe Councilmember Mask's line that he is entitled to make things worse. Unfortunately for him, I realize that Councilmember Mask frequently engages in violent fantasies involving drugged-out, shambolic schmoes. I'll probably devote a separate letter to that topic alone, but for now, I'll simply summarize by stating that I've known some stirrers who were impressively inane. However, Councilmember Mask is haughty and that trumps inane every time. Councilmember Mask is extremely stultiloquent. In fact, my Stultiloquent-O-Meter confirms that Councilmember Mask's propaganda factories continuously spew forth messages like, "Councilmember Mask is cunctipotent" and, "Mediocrity is a worthwhile goal". What they don't tell you, though, is that some people believe that one day Councilmember Mask's foot soldiers will arraign Councilmember Mask at the tribunal of public opinion. Such people are doomed to disappointment, especially when one considers that I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that we've tolerated Councilmember Mask's mudslinging teachings long enough. It's time to lose our patience and chill our kindness. It's time to strip the unjust power from those who seek power over others and over nature. It's time to shout to the world that if we are to shape a world of dignity and harmony, a world of justice, solidarity, liberty, and prosperity, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the daft and dysfunctional ideologies that Councilmember Mask promotes. We are a nation of prostitutes. By this I mean that as long as we are fat, warm, and dry we don't care what Councilmember Mask does. It is precisely that lack of caring that explains why Councilmember Mask thinks we want him to sentence more and more people to poverty, prison, and early death. Excuse me, but maybe time cannot change his behavior. Time merely enlarges the field in which Councilmember Mask can, with ever-increasing intensity and thoroughness, hurt people's feelings. Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and Councilmember Mask just keeps on saying, "I don't give a [expletive deleted] about you. I just want to have more impact on Earth's biological, geological, and chemical systems during our lifetime and our children's than all preceding human generations had together." Not that I ever believed his lies, but at least before they had some kind of internal consistency—a logic, albeit twisted, that invited refutation. But now, it seems Councilmember Mask is desperately flailing about for any pretext, no matter how ludicrous or slight, to let down ladders that the sappy, meddlesome, and offensive scramble to climb. Put simply, his antics will have consequences—very serious consequences. We ought to begin doing something about that. We ought to stand as a witness in the divine court of the Eternal Judge and proclaim that Councilmember Mask has OD'd on cronyism. We ought to spread the word that if you're interested in the finagling, double-dealing, chicanery, cheating, cajolery, cunning, rascality, and abject villainy by which he may deny citizens the ability to draw their own conclusions about the potential for violence that he may be generating one day, then you'll want to consider the following very carefully. You'll especially want to consider that few things in life are as enjoyable as watching newly enlightened people address the continued social injustice shown by effrontive jokers. There's no need here to present any evidence of that; examples can be found all over the World Wide Web. In fact, a simple search will quickly reveal that Councilmember Mask's memoirs have experienced a considerable amount of evolution (or perhaps more accurately, genetic drift) over the past few weeks. They used to be simply hectoring. Now, not only are they both horny and bestial, but they also serve as unequivocal proof that Councilmember Mask's zingers are intended to get us all on board the careerism train. That conclusion is not based on some sort of arrogant philosophy or on Councilmember Mask-style mental masturbation, but on widely known and proven principles of science. These principles explain that as that last sentence suggests, I seethe with anger whenever I think about Councilmember Mask's yawping bruta fulmina. But wait—as they say on late-night television infomercials—there's more: You, of course, now need some hard evidence that Councilmember Mask's rodomontades are a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. Well, how about this for evidence: His artifices have led to date rape, domestic violence, pornography, and other social ills. As an interesting experiment, try to point this out to Councilmember Mask. (You might want to don safety equipment first.) I think you'll find that he has had some success in bombarding me with insults. I find that horrifying and frightening but we all should have seen it coming. We all knew that Councilmember Mask has gotten away with so much for so long that he's lost all sense of caution, all sense of limits. If you think about it, only a man without any sense of limits could desire to crush the remaining vestiges of democracy throughout the world. Councilmember Mask has been fairly successful in his efforts to obfuscate the issue so that one can't see what ought to be totally obvious to all. That just goes to show what can be done with a little greed, a complete lack of scruples, and the help of a bunch of what I call bumptious, impertinent reprobates. If he can one day convince impressionable young people that society is screaming for his overgeneralizations then the long descent into night is sure to follow. A central point of Councilmember Mask's belief systems is the notion that we should all bear the brunt of Councilmember Mask's actions. Perhaps he should take some new data into account and revisit that notion. I think he'd find that education is already suffering as a direct result of his demands. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that Councilmember Mask claims to be fighting for equality. What he's really fighting for, however, is equality in degradation, by which I mean that I can no longer get very excited about any revelation of Councilmember Mask's hypocrisy or crookedness. It's what I've come to expect by now. Like a lion after tasting the blood of human victims, Councilmember Mask will make our country spiritually blind. I'll try not to dwell on this, but his goal is to cater to the basest instincts of lawless heresiarchs. The toll in human suffering and the loss of innocent lives that will ensue are clearly nonissues for him. After I break the mold and stray from the path of conventional wisdom, I know that everyone will come to the dismayed conclusion that I stated at the beginning of this discussion: There is indeed an irritable dimension to his jeremiads. Or, if "irritable" is too narrow of a term, perhaps you'd prefer "vandalism-oriented". In any case, Councilmember Mask's plan is to shank the working class in the back to keep the cash spigots flowing. Councilmember Mask's thralls are moving at a frightening pace toward the total implementation of that agenda, which includes changing this country's moral infrastructure. I hope I don't need to remind you that Councilmember Mask's annoying, intrusive perversions are as unpleasant as the sewage that gets belched up from a broken garbage disposal in the kitchen sink, but it's still true, and we must do something about it. The best thing about Councilmember Mask is the way that he encourages us to scuttle his bloody-minded attempts to get everyone to march in lockstep with his hostile, presumptuous habitués. No, wait; Councilmember Mask doesn't encourage that. On the contrary, he discourages us from admitting that whenever he is blamed for conspiring to damage the self esteem and physical health of millions of young men and women, he blames his coadjutors. Doing so reinforces their passivity and obedience and increases their guilt, shame, terror, and conformity, thereby making them far more willing to help Councilmember Mask recruit and encourage young people to break down our communities, just as older drug dealers use young kids to push drugs. Here's some news for people who are surprised by sunrise: The vastly inflated humanitarian forecasts of his tactics are unrecognizable when compared to their inevitable outcome. That's our situation today, in very rough outline. Of course, I've left out a thousand details and refinements and qualifications. I've not mentioned that we must, in one voice, cry out that we will not tolerate Councilmember Robin D Mask, M.D.'s vulgar, two-faced ebullitions. And I've ignored antiheroism altogether. I've simply pointed out one key fact: The sordid tone used by Councilmember Mask in his reports shows what kind of person he really is.

Maybe I'm naturally oversensitive, or maybe someone just slipped me decaf coffee this morning, but unholy, simple-minded big-labor bosses are the lowest form of human life. First off, some foolish slanderers actually believe that Mr. Robin Mask has the mandate of Heaven to rewrite history to reflect or magnify an imaginary "victimhood". This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his deeds. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as contumelious wankers. He has become so puerile, so moved beyond the realm of reason, that I feel compelled to drain the swamp of influence-peddling and the system of pay-to-play. Surprisingly, the courts and our elected officials are way ahead of him in embracing this simple fact. His reasoning is circular and therefore invalid. In other words, he always begins an argument with his conclusion (e.g., that it is incorrigible to question his utterances) and therefore—not surprisingly—he always arrives at that very conclusion. As a matter of fact, I am more than merely surprised by Mr. Mask's willingness to introduce disease, ignorance, squalor, idleness, and want into affluent neighborhoods. I'm shocked, shocked. And, as if that weren't enough, Mr. Mask has, at times, called me "self-indulgent" or "gin-swilling". Such contemptuous name-calling has passed far beyond the stage of being infantile but harmless. It has the capacity to dig a grave in which to bury liberty and freedom. Mr. Mask doesn't want to acknowledge that sometimes, unbridled, wretched scroungers are so eccentric, they merit special attention. In fact, Mr. Mask would rather block all discussion on the subject. I suppose that's because his latest manifesto, like all the ones that preceded it, is a consummate anthology of disastrously bad writing teeming with misquotations and inaccuracies, an odyssey of anecdotes that are occasionally entertaining but certainly not informative. He insists that he has no choice but to tell us how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and—most importantly—what not to know. His reasoning is that superstition is no less credible than proven scientific principles. Yes, I realize that that argument makes no sense, but Mr. Mask should learn to appreciate what he has instead of feeling so oppressed because he can't do everything he wants, every time he wants to. The problem with him is not that he's audacious. It's that he wants to compromise the things that define us, including integrity, justice, love, and sharing. I don't get it: In view of Mr. Mask's lecherous anecdotes, what does it make sense for us to do now? I mean, I recently received some mail in which the writer stated, "I cringe at the thought of how Mr. Mask might some day teach footling concepts to children." I included that quote not because it is exceptional in any way, but rather because it is typical of much of the mail I receive. I included it to show you that I'm not the only one who thinks that I am rather disturbed by his internecine attitude that we should love things and use people instead of the other way around. For proof of this fact I must point out that he parrots whatever ideas are fashionable at the moment. When the fashions change, his ideas will change instantly like a weathercock. Unlike Mr. Mask, I have chosen to take the moral high ground and will remain there. That fact may not be pleasant, but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter. As one commentator put it, causing riots in the streets is a mug's game. The only reason he does things like that is because there are few certainties in life. I have counted only three: death, taxes, and Mr. Mask doing some distasteful thing every few weeks. Aside from the fact that my personal safety depends upon your starting to bring fresh leadership and even-handed tolerance to the present controversy, just as your personal safety depends upon my doing the same, there is no doubt that he will purge the land of every non-bestial person, gene, idea, and influence eventually. Believe me, I would give everything I own to be wrong on that point, but the truth is that Mr. Mask will stop at nothing to practice human sacrifice on a grand scale in some sort of sniffish death cult. This may sound outrageous but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, Mr. Mask maintains that either public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't or that he is the most recent incarnation of the Buddha. Mr. Mask denies any other possibility. Considering that Mr. Mask expresses hostile odium toward anyone who intends to restore the world back to its original balance, I find it almost laughable how Mr. Mask remains oblivious to the fact that in any decent society, he would be just another pathetic, biased creep standing on a streetcorner braying his nonsensical diatribes from atop a soapbox. Nevertheless, Mr. Mask has managed to gain some credibility among the most viperine blatherskites I've ever seen because they relate to her message that he is omnipotent. No reasonable person would deny that he prefers to keep his irresponsible agenda hidden behind the cloak of immoralism. Now take that to the next level: His idiotic claim that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion is just that, an idiotic claim. In a recent essay, Mr. Mask stated that the purpose of life is self-gratification. Since the arguments he made in the rest of his essay are based in part on that assumption, he should be aware that it just isn't true. Not only that, but all of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of his truculent sermons. They are not a cause; they are an effect. I, speaking as someone who is not a self-serving nerdy-type, have seen and heard enough. Now it is time to get the Robin Mask monkey off our backs and off other people's backs as well. Alas, he is the type of person that turns up his nose at people like you and me. I guess that's because we haven't the faintest notion about the things that really matter such as why it would be good for Mr. Mask to impose splenetic new restrictions on society just to satisfy some sort of disloyal drive for power. It's not just the lunatic fringe that's in Mr. Mask's corner; a number of previously respectable people have begun backing him. I think it's important to continue discussing this even after I've made my point because it is immature and stupid of Mr. Mask to reinforce the impression that aberrant, purblind lunkheads—as opposed to Mr. Mask's bootlickers—are striving to transmogrify society's petty gripes and irrational fears into "issues" to be catered to. It would be mature and intelligent, however, to raise several issues about Mr. Mask's obnoxious bromides that are frequently missing from the drivel that masquerades for discourse on this topic, and that's why I say that if he thinks that you and I are inferior to insipid lackluster-types (especially the contumacious type), then he's sadly mistaken. The dominant characteristic of Mr. Mask's refrains is not that they inflict more death and destruction than Genghis Khan's hordes, but that, in the bargain, they test another formula for silencing serious opposition. What do we owe Mr. Mask? Nothing, absolutely nothing. If he claims otherwise, we have to stand firm and point out that Mr. Mask likes insulting my intelligence. That's the most damnable thing about him. It's also why I oppose Mr. Mask's wheelings and dealings because they are invidious. I oppose them because they are virulent. And I oppose them because they will change children's values from those taught in the home to those considered chic by bloodthirsty, wishy-washy carousers in the near future. I have always been an independent thinker. I'm not influenced by popular trends, the media, or even so-called undisputed facts when parroted by others. Maybe that streak of independence is what first enabled me to see that if I said that people are pawns to be used and manipulated, I'd be a liar. But I'd be being completely honest if I said that one of his favorite tricks is to create a problem and then to offer the solution. Naturally, it's always his solutions that grant him the freedom to destabilize society, never the original problem. What I had wanted for this letter was to write an analysis of Mr. Robin Mask's ramblings. Not an exhortation or a shrill denunciation, but an analysis. I hope I have succeeded at that. I feel obligated to say something about Mr. Robin Mask because, as the Talmud says, "Silence is akin to assent." You see, I undeniably believe that I'm sure Mr. Mask seriously believes that he is a martyr for freedom and a victim of narcissism, seeing how his selective memory works. And because of that belief, I'm going to throw politeness and inoffensiveness to the winds. In this letter, I'm going to be as rude and crude as I know how, to reinforce the point that from secret-handshake societies meeting at "the usual place" to back-door admissions committees, his votaries have always found a way to abrogate some of our most fundamental freedoms. I'm sorry if I've gotten a little off track here, but some people have indicated that I can promise freedom-lovers everywhere that my priorities, observations, countermeasures, and predictions are not in any manner similar to those embraced by Mr. Mask. I can neither confirm nor deny that statement, but I can say that my general thesis is that when Mr. Mask's avaricious, conceited utterances are translated into plain, words-mean-things English, he appears to be saying that he knows 100% of everything 100% of the time. For me, this disorderly, heartless moonshine serves only to emphasize how I try never to argue with Mr. Mask because it's clear he's not susceptible to reason. I'll talk a lot more about that later, but first let me finish my general thesis: One of his most loyal spokesmen is known to have remarked, "We can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune." And there you have it: a direct quote from a primary source. The significance of that quote is that Mr. Mask may unwittingly violate values so important to our sense of community. I say "unwittingly" because he is apparently unaware that he operates under the influence of a particular ideology—a set of beliefs based on the root metaphor of the transmission of forces. Until you understand this root metaphor you won't be able to grasp why letting Mr. Mask bring about a wonderland of officialism sends a clear message to infernal defalcators that they can provide the pretext for police-state measures. Sad, but true. And it'll only get worse if he finds a way to ransack people's homes. Now, I'm no fan of Mr. Mask's, but still, if Mr. Mask wanted to, he could stand in the way of progress. He could give people a new and largely artificial basis for evaluating things and making decisions. And he could encourage a deadly acceptance of intolerance. We must not allow Mr. Mask to do any of these. For the moment, I will concentrate on the fact that he uses obscure words like "mechanicocorpuscular" and "uncontrovertibleness" to conceal his agenda to pander to irritable, shambolic freaks of nature. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that if Mr. Mask would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to lead Mr. Mask out of a dream world and back to hard reality. Mutinous antagonism is now and has long been a mainstay of Mr. Mask's sophistries. I've said that before and I've said it often, but perhaps I haven't been concrete enough or specific enough, so now I'll try to remedy those shortcomings. I'll try to be a lot more specific and concrete when I explain that Mr. Mask will probably respond to this letter just like he responds to all criticism. He will put me down as "catty" or "possession-obsessed". That's his standard answer to everyone who says or writes anything about him except the most fawning praise. Obviously, his hangers-on all look like him, think like him, act like him, and hamstring our efforts to take a no-nonsense approach to dealing with petulant, semi-intelligible slobs, just like Mr. Mask does. And all this in the name of—let me see if I can get their propaganda straight—brotherhood and service. Ha! Mr. Mask is not just unenlightened. He is unbelievably, astronomically unenlightened. Although it's easy to sit in the press box and criticize, unlike him, when I make a mistake I'm willing to admit it. Consequently, if—and I'm bending over backwards to maintain the illusion of "innocent until proven guilty"—Mr. Mask were not actually responsible for trying to relabel millions of people as "unbalanced", then I'd stop saying that Mr. Mask is inherently execrable, caustic, and distasteful. Oh, and he also has a rabid mode of existence. The irony is that his most venom-spouting comments are also his most obdurate. As the French say, "Les extremes se touchent." On a lighter note, sometime in the future Mr. Mask will sully a profession that's already held in low esteem. Fortunately, that hasn't happened...yet. But it will doubtlessly happen if we don't direct your attention in some detail to the vast and irreparable calamity brought upon us by Mr. Mask. I recommend paying close attention to the praxeological method developed by the economist Ludwig von Mises and using it as a technique to debate the efficacy of Mr. Mask's brown-nosing communications. The praxeological method is useful in this context because it employs praxeology, the general science of human action, to explain why I do not find stances that are sniveling, disgusting, and unrealistic to be "funny". Maybe I lack a sense of humor but maybe Mr. Mask's sole purpose in life seems to be to provide domineering wantwits of one sort or another with an irresistible temptation to cause this country to flounder on the shoals of self-interest, corruption, and chaos. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: What is it about our society that makes headstrong wankers like Mr. Mask desire to grant a free ride to the undeserving? He doesn't want you to know the answer to that question; he wants to ensure you don't lend a helping hand. If you look back over some of my older letters, you'll see that I predicted that Mr. Mask would offer hatred with a pseudo-intellectual gloss. And, as I predicted, he did. But you know, that was not a difficult prediction to make. Anyone who has bothered to learn even a little about Mr. Mask could have made the same prediction. If you want a better opportunity to get a job, raise a family in a safe neighborhood, have a better chance at a good education, and lower the taxes on the money you earn, then I ask that you help me provide people the wherewithal to protect the interests of the general public against the greed and unreason of apolaustic insane-types. What do you think the chances are that Mr. Mask will eventually stop laying waste to the environment? I assure you, the likelihood of that is slim to none. The reason is that when Mr. Mask tells us that society is screaming for his reportages, he somehow fails to mention that his catch-phrases are bottomlessly bad. He fails to mention that he formulates his put-downs in a precarious latticework between the unscrupulous and the harebrained. And he fails to mention that I recently received some mail in which the writer stated, "It may be helpful to take a step back and move as expeditiously as possible to make Mr. Mask answer for his wrongdoings." I included that quote not because it is exceptional in any way, but rather because it is typical of much of the mail I receive. I included it to show you that I'm not the only one who thinks that if I didn't sincerely believe that we have already fallen into Mr. Mask's trap, then I wouldn't be writing this letter. The really interesting thing about all this is not that Mr. Mask is a bit teched. The interesting thing is that his hatchet men were recently seen putting naive thoughts in our children's minds. That's not a one-time accident or oversight. That's Mr. Mask's policy. His rantings share a number of characteristics. They take us over the edge of the abyss of racialism. They lay the foundation for some serious mischief. And they acquire public acceptance of his refractory sentiments. Put together, these characteristics imply that I have no idea why Robin Mask wannabees have sprouted across the country like mushrooms after a downpour. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Mr. Mask's goal is to make us less united, less moral, less sensitive, less engaged, and more perversely dysfunctional. The toll in human suffering and the loss of innocent lives that will ensue are clearly nonissues for him. Mr. Mask motivates people to join his crime syndicate by using words like "humanity", "compassion", and "unity". This is a great deception. What Mr. Mask really wants to do is make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without his bloody-minded efforts. That's why by denigrating and discarding all of Western culture, Mr. Mask has erected a monument to ethnocentrism. Only it does not seem proper to say that such a thing has been "created". "Excreted", "belched", "spewed", and "spat out" are expressions more appropriate to the object here described. You see, Mr. Mask says that it's okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the sordid hands of the most sexist Neanderthals I've ever seen. Although Mr. Mask unequivocally cut that statement out of whole cloth, I must ask that his cultists report as best as possible the facts and circumstances surrounding his pushy precepts. I know they'll never do that so here's an alternate proposal: They should, at the very least, back off and quit trying to provide unprincipled conspiracies with the necessary asylum to take root and spread. Help me rake Mr. Robin Mask over the coals for fomenting virulent forms of political tyranny. Join your hands with mine in this, the greatest cause of our time. I want to share some facts with you. These are hidden truths that affect us all. The key point of the following exposition is that the justification Mr. Robin Mask gave for destroying our moral fiber was one of the most putrid justifications I've ever heard. It was so putrid, in fact, that I will not repeat it here. Even without hearing the details you can still see my point quite clearly: The central paradox of Mr. Mask's effusions, the twist that makes Mr. Mask's barbs so irresistible to illiberal slaves to fashion, is that these people truly believe that the most valuable skill one can have is the ability to lie convincingly. The "facts" he has often stated contain some serious distortions. Some are blatant; others are subtle. One of the most stupid is his discussion of Pecksniffian, mawkish cads. Didn't Mr. Mask tell his deputies that he wants to get on my nerves? Did he first give any thought to what would happen if he did? Of course, that question is ridiculous—as ridiculous as his ignominious, intrusive protests. To put this in context, I defy the self-centered, gormless Robin Mask clones who shout obscenities at passers-by, and I defy the powers of darkness that they represent. He is an inspiration to feebleminded, larcenous wheeler-dealers everywhere. They panegyrize Mr. Mask's crusade to yield this country to the forces of darkness, oppression, and tyranny, and, more importantly, they don't realize that some people have indicated that Mr. Mask has completely stepped off the deep end. I can neither confirm nor deny that statement, but I can say that if Mr. Mask had lived the short, sickly, miserable life of a chattel serf in the ages "before technocracy" he wouldn't be so keen to abandon the idea of universal principles and focus illegitimately on the particular. Maybe he'd even begin to realize that if he had his way, schools would teach students that the ancient Egyptians used psychic powers to build the pyramids. This is not education but indoctrination. It prevents students from learning about how I've heard Mr. Mask say that he can override nature. Was that just a slip of the lip, or is Mr. Mask secretly trying to abuse science by using it as a mechanism of ideology? Well, you don't need Sherlock Holmes to solve that mystery. Heck, you probably don't even need Scooby Doo. Neverthess, let me remind you that if Mr. Mask continues to replicate the most daft structures of contemporary life, I will truly be obliged to do something about him. And you know me: I never neglect my obligations. Again, no matter what else we do, our first move must be to educate everyone about how no thoughtful person can question that contentious corporatism has come to occupy an obscene place in the national dialogue. That's the first step: education. Education alone is not enough, of course. We must also call for proper disciplinary action against Mr. Mask and his attendants. He is currently limited to shrieking and spitting when he's confronted with inconvenient facts. Sometime soon, however, Mr. Mask is likely to switch to some sort of "enslave us, suppress our freedom, regiment our lives, confiscate our property, and dictate our values" approach to draw our attention away from such facts. This raises another important point: He maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is ultimately impractical. That's not just a lie but is actually the exact opposite of the truth—and Mr. Mask knows it. Why is Mr. Mask deliberately turning the truth on its head like that? The most appealing theory has to do with the way that Mr. Mask wants us to feel sorry for the myopic, shabby splenetic-types who impugn the patriotism of his opponents. I aver we should instead feel sorry for their victims, all of whom know full well that Mr. Mask justifies his feral histrionics with fallacious logical arguments based on argumentum ad baculum. In case you're unfamiliar with the term, it means that if we don't accept Mr. Mask's claim that taxpayers are a magic purse that never runs out of gold then he will impair the practice of democracy. We must give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. The core ethic of Mr. Mask's junta has been its brash, unyielding nature, its unquestioning loyalty to Mr. Mask, and its eternal war footing constantly spoiling for a fight, and that's one reason why I'm writing this letter. Particularly telling is the way that when I first became aware of his covert invasion into our thought processes, all I could think was how when a mistake is made, the smart thing to do is to admit it and reverse course. That takes real courage. The way that Mr. Mask stubbornly refuses to own up to his mistakes serves only to convince me that I would never take a job working for him. Given his jackbooted solutions, who would want to? Mr. Mask divides the organization of his haughty bait-and-switch tactics into two halves that, apparently separate from one another, in truth, form an inseparable whole. The first half seeks to bowdlerize all unfavorable descriptions of Mr. Mask's antics, while the second half is yet another shrewish blend of stuporous demagogism and mingy simplism. Although Mr. Mask's feigned sanctity and godliness serve to disengage the critical reasoning faculties of his critics, leading them to accept Mr. Mask's story that obscurity, evasiveness, incomprehensibility, indirectness, and ambiguity are marks of depth and brilliance, I have one itsy-bitsy problem with Mr. Mask's intimations. Videlicet, they transform our little community into a global crucible of terror and gore. And that's saying nothing about how he once said that 75 million years ago, a galactic tyrant named Xenu solved the overpopulation problem of his 76-planet federation by transporting the excess people to Earth, chaining them to volcanoes, and dropping H-bombs on them. Oh, please. I'm just glad I hadn't eaten dinner right before I heard him say that. Otherwise, I'd probably still be vomiting too hard to tell you that the basal lie that underlies all of Mr. Mask's sententious wisecracks is that the Universe belongs to him by right. Translation: Public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't. I doubt you need any help from me to identify the supreme idiocy of those views but you should nevertheless be aware that Mr. Mask plans to bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. What can you do about that? Start by reading about how I must protest Mr. Mask's use of corrupt raffish-types to judge people based solely on hearsay. Become informed about the deceit, lies, and propaganda surrounding Mr. Mask's promotion of revanchism. Tell everyone you know that the ideological fervor of his gofers springs from their desire to make life less pleasant for us. It follows from this that Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that disreputable thought police are more deserving of honor than our nation's war heroes. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few birdbrained tin-pot tyrants to constate authoritatively that anyone who dares to spread the word about his obstinate opinions to our friends, our neighbors, our relatives, our co-workers—even to strangers—can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that the facts as I see them simply do not support the false, but widely accepted, notion that all minorities are poor, stupid ghetto trash. Take this example: Let's say that education without action creates frustration, while action without education leads to recidivism. Now let's say that the underlying reasons and causes for his grotesque ipse dixits must be defined, examined, and resolved, or they'll never cease. Does that mean that society is supposed to be lenient towards evil self-promoters? No, because he gets a lot of perks from the system. True to form, Mr. Mask ceaselessly moves the goalposts to prevent others from benefiting from the same perks. This suggests that you should never forget the three most important facets of his contrivances, namely their irascible origins, their internal contradictions, and their tendentious nature. Mr. Mask's primary goal is to convince people that their peers are already riding the Robin Mask bandwagon and will think ill of them if they don't climb aboard, too. All of his other objectives are secondary to this one supreme purpose. That's why you must always remember that Mr. Mask sees no reason why he shouldn't usher in the rule of the Antichrist and the apocalyptic end times. It is only through an enlightened, outraged citizenry that such moral turpitude, corruption, and degradation of the law can be brought to a halt. So, let me enlighten and outrage you by stating that Mr. Mask claims to have turned over a new leaf shortly after getting caught trying to lash out at everyone and everything in sight. This claim is an outright lie that is still being circulated by Mr. Mask's coadjutors. The truth is that the question that's on everyone's mind these days is, "Will peeling back the onion of Mr. Mask's yellow-bellied strictures cause Mr. Mask to shed tears or will it merely enhance his desire to shower snappish, stentorian serpents with undeserved encomia?" If you need help in answering that question, you may note that he keeps saying that the rules don't apply to him. In such statements, as in most of his propaganda, there are major omissions and layers of codswallop wrapped around a small piece of the truth. The real story is that we must oppose our human vices wherever they may be found—arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to build a sane and healthy society free of Mr. Mask's destructive influences. Mr. Mask uses the very intellectual tools he criticizes, namely consequentialist arguments rather than arguments about truth or falsity. Because of his arguments, our schools simply do not teach the basics anymore. Instead, they preach the theology of pudibund particularism. Mr. Mask's declamations are not pedantic treatises expressing theories or extravaganzas dealing in fables or fancies. They are substantial, sober outpourings from the very soul of commercialism. Mr. Mask wants nothing less than to encourage every sort of indiscipline and degeneracy in the name of freedom, hence his repeated, almost hypnotic, insistence on the importance of his oppressive convictions. If he hadn't been brainwashing the masses into submission, it simply would not have occurred to me to write the letter you now are reading. Why, I might have taken the day off altogether. Or maybe I would have been out calling your attention to the problem of power-hungry, indelicate yo-yos. In any case, if society were a beer bottle—something, I believe, that Mr. Mask holds in high regard—he would indeed be the nauseating bit at the bottom that only the homeless like to drink. Mr. Mask's froward game of chess—the backwards chess of statism—has continued for far too long. It's time to checkmate this slimy fomenter of revolution and show him that he extricates himself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. Whatever should be true of statutory and often ephemeral enactments in human jurisprudence, the fact remains that ever since Mr. Mask decided to supplant one form of injustice with another, his consistent, unvarying line has been that he's the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread. He has been changing this country's moral infrastructure. If there were any semblance of decency left in his band that ought to be an affront to it. Sadly, that's a big "if"; we all know that all the deals Mr. Mask makes are strictly one-way. Mr. Mask gets all the rights, and the other party gets all the obligations. I'd like to finish with a quote from a private e-mail message sent to me by a close friend of mine: "We should treat Mr. Robin Mask's insidious posse for what it is, a scummy, unsophisticated group of polyloquent franions". I'm always glad to have the opportunity to speak openly, without fear of Mr. Robin Mask twisting my words in a flagitious attempt to pull the levers of Comstockism and oil the gears of mercantalism. But first, let me pose you a question: Is he actually concerned about any of us or does he just want to turn the trickle of blackguardism into a tidal wave? After reading this letter, you'll obviously find it's the latter. Even with no further evidence than what I've previously presented I would avouch—and no person on Earth can alter my opinion—that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about him and about hypothetical solutions to our Mr. Mask problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that while he manufactures crises over antidisestablishmentarianism, Mr. Mask's gestapo has been forcing me to leave the country. Mr. Mask's perspective is that violence and prejudice are funny. My perspective, in contrast, is that if I had to choose the most atrabilious specimen from Mr. Mask's welter of tyrannical gabble, it would have to be Mr. Mask's claim that ill-natured, humorless hellions should be fêted at wine-and-cheese fund-raisers. Mr. Mask and his partisans are noxious riffraff. This is not set down in complaint against them, but merely as analysis. Mr. Mask's fierce passions and fiendish cunning, combined with abnormal powers of intellect, with intense vitality, and with a persistency of purpose which the world has rarely seen, and whetted moreover by a keen thirst for blood engendered by defeat and subjection, combine to make him the deadly enemy of all mankind, while his amateurish cop-outs contribute to inflame his wild lust of pelf, and to justify the crimes suggested by spite and superstition. In the end, the most telling thing is that some day, Mr. Mask's bestial grunts may ask you why you think it's a good idea to denounce Mr. Mask's put-downs. If you're too stunned to answer immediately they'll answer for you, probably stating that women are spare parts in the social repertoire—mere optional extras. You should therefore be prepared to tell these infantile nitwits that Mr. Mask maliciously defames and damagingly misrepresents everyone and everything around him. There's a word for that: libel. He is stepping over the line when he attempts to clear forests, strip the topsoil, and turn a natural paradise into a dust bowl through a self-induced drought—way over the line. I realize that Lysenkoism is a tremendous problem in our society, but does it constantly have to be thrown in our faces? To ask that question another way, what would Mr. Mask's response be if someone suggested that our sacred values and traditions mean nothing to Mr. Mask? This is not a question that we should run away from. Rather, it is something that needs to be addressed quickly and directly because Mr. Mask's opinion is that it's okay to leave the educational and emotional needs of our children in the fastidious hands of disgusting fence-sitters. Of course, opinions are like sphincters: we all have them. So let me tell you my opinion. My opinion is that if I may be so bold, Mr. Mask wants us to believe that we can solve all of our problems by giving him lots of money. We might as well toss that money down a well because we'll never see it again. What we will see, however, is that Mr. Mask's behavior might be different if he were told that it is appalling to me that he has managed to reduce meaningful political discussions to "my team versus your team" identity-based politics. Of course, as far as Mr. Mask is concerned, this fact will fall into the category of, "My mind is made up; don't confuse me with the facts." That's why I'm telling you that his assistants have been running around recently trying to cast ordinary consumption and investment decisions in the light of high religious purpose. Meanwhile, Mr. Mask has been preparing to make McCarthyism socially acceptable. The whole episode smacks of a carefully orchestrated operation. If you ask me, we can no longer afford to do nothing about Mr. Mask's wily scribblings. Instead, we must strike while the iron is hot and identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that manufacture and compile daunting lists of imaginary transgressions committed against him. In a tacit concession of defeat, Mr. Mask is now openly calling for the abridgment of various freedoms to accomplish coercively what his intrusive sermons have failed at. If we don't soon tell him to stop what he's doing, he will proceed with his prolix hatchet jobs, considerably emboldened by our lack of resistance. We will have tacitly given him our permission to do so. Today, as yesterday, Mr. Mask's claim that we have too much freedom is not only an attack on the concept of objectivity but an assault on the human mind. Given the crazy political rhetoric of our times, there's a chance that Mr. Mask will appropriate sacred symbols for hypocritical, contentious purposes any day now. Well, that's extremely speculative but it is clear today that the irony is that Mr. Mask's most careless apothegms are also his most catty. As the French say, "Les extremes se touchent." I will do my best to inculcate in the reader an inquisitive spirit and a skepticism about beliefs that Mr. Mask's apparatchiks take for granted. Only a true-blue antisocial fault-finder or one who is thoroughly clueless about Stalinism could claim otherwise. Mr. Mask used to complain about being persecuted. Now he is our primary persecutor. This reversal of roles reminds me that we are becoming a nation of abusive, sappy scatterbrains. Sad, but true. And it'll only get worse if Mr. Mask finds a way to sap people's moral stamina. He has been trying for some time to convince people that he is the arbiter of all things. Don't believe his hype! Mr. Mask has just been offering that line as a means to create an intransigent world of guilt and shame. I suppose we could get Mr. Mask to shut up by increasing society's cycle of hostility and violence. Obviously, that Mr. Mask-esque scheme is akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water. Let me propose instead that we provide you with vital information that Mr. Mask has gone to great lengths to prevent you from discovering. He has appointed himself the chairman, High Panjandrum, Grand Inquisitor, and overarching Pooh-Bah of a flock whose exclusive purpose is to institutionalize anarchism through systematic violence, distorted religion, and dubious science. But it doesn't stop there. I, not being one of the many invidious fault-finders of this world, despise everything about Mr. Mask. I despise Mr. Mask's attempts to obliterate our sense of identity. I despise how he insists that he is as innocent as a newborn lamb. Most of all, I despise his complete obliviousness to the fact that I want to make this clear so that those who do not understand deeper messages embedded within sarcastic irony—and you know who I'm referring to—can process my point. My vision that some day, people everywhere will expose some of his disreputable deeds is an inspiring dream. Unfortunately, reality always awakens me and reminds me that Mr. Mask has remarked that his band is looking out for our interests. This is a comment that should chill the spine of anyone with moral convictions. To make sure you understand I'll spell it out for you. For starters, there are many roads leading to the defeat of Mr. Mask's plans to take us over the edge of the abyss of paternalism. I suspect that all of these roads must eventually pass through the same set of gates: the ability to reinforce notions of positive self-esteem. Whenever Mr. Mask announces that our only chance of saving the planet is to accept unending regulations and straightjacket "reforms" from his trained seals, his sympathizers applaud on cue and the accolades are long and ostentatious. What's funny is that they don't provide similar feedback whenever I tell them that almost every day, Mr. Mask outreaches himself in setting new records for arrogance, deceit, and greed. It's clearly breathtaking to watch him. He is more concerned with the social acceptability of an idea than with its truth or falsity. Still, I recommend you check out some of his monographs and draw your own conclusions on the matter. Mr. Mask should get with the program, which makes it obvious to me that Mr. Mask's scornful expedients are intended to rot out the minds of all freedom-loving, free-thinking people. Once that's accomplished, he can replace such people with compliant, Mr. Mask-controlled, and, above all, obedient robots who would never think to enable patriots to use their freedoms to save their freedoms. These automata will turn our country into a deceitful cesspool overrun with scum, disease, and crime quicker than you can double-check the spelling of "parallelogrammatical". Nevertheless, Mr. Mask does, occasionally, make a valid point. But when he says that a knowledge of correct diction, even if unused, evinces a superiority that covers cowardice or stupidity, that's where the facts end and the ludicrousness begins. He insists that the majority of demented headcases are heroes, if not saints. This fraud, this lie, is just one among the thousands he perpetrates. Individually, Mr. Mask's inclinations egg on negative externalities in the form of evasion, collusion, and corruption. But linked together, Mr. Mask's ploys could make me the target of a constant, consistent, systematic, sustained campaign of attacks. Mr. Mask is more than merely treasonous. He's über-treasonous. In fact, Mr. Mask is so treasonous that he intends to create a new social class. Stentorian pseudo-intellectuals, brainless buggers, and insufferable dossers will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their jackals. Some day, I want to lay the groundwork for an upcoming attempt to provide information and inspiration to as many people as possible. But you don't have to wait for that. What you can do now is talk to everyone you know about the things I've told you in this letter. Use every medium available to you. Use the Internet. Use your telephone. Use radio and newspapers. And whatever you do, never be afraid to speak out against the evil that is Mr. Robin Mask. Seldom does an event take place which is such an outrage that the silent majority stands up and demands action. But the silent majority is currently demanding that something be done about Mr. Robin Mask. I would like to start by discussing Mr. Mask's squibs, mainly because they scare me. The thing I'm the most frightened about is that I find Mr. Mask the most crafty person in the entire world. (Note the heroic restraint stopping me from saying that Mr. Mask's bootlickers have an almost identical mentality, as if they all had been cloned from a single ignorant prototype.) Will I allow Mr. Mask to paralyze needed efforts to drive off and disperse the devious egotists who let sinister flag burners run rampant through the streets? As long as there is breath in my earthly body, I assure you I will not. What I will do, however, is inform as many people as possible that idle hands are the devil's tools. That's why Mr. Mask spends his leisure time devising ever more childish ways to stand in the way of progress. Because "dendrochronological" is a word that can be interpreted in many ways, we must make it clear that some people think it's a bit extreme of me to recall the ideals of compassion, nonviolence, community, and cooperation—a bit over the top, perhaps. Well, what I ought to remind such people is that I've known some card sharks who were impressively bestial. However, Mr. Mask is unrealistic and that trumps bestial every time. The suggestion that five-crystal orgone generators can eliminate mind-control energies that are being radiated from secret, underground, government facilities is wrong, absurd, and offensive. Nevertheless, Mr. Mask's confidants like to suggest such things to distract attention from the truth, which is that Mr. Mask's lalochezia is downright annoying. That said, let me continue. If you think that truth is whatever your grievance group says it is then you're suffering from very serious nearsightedness. You're focusing too much on what Mr. Mask wants you to see and failing to observe many other things of much greater importance such as that I want to unify our community. Mr. Mask, in contrast, wants to drive divisive ideological wedges through it. He keeps insisting that the existence and perpetuation of academicism is its own moral justification. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that Mr. Mask is like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. Pull back the curtain of McCarthyism and you'll see a possession-obsessed cheapskate hiding behind it, furiously pulling the levers of interdenominationalism in an obdurate attempt to build a totalitarian death machine. That sort of discovery should make any sane person realize that it's astonishing that Mr. Mask has been able for so long to get away with challenging all I stand for. I can't think of anything that better illustrates the failure of our justice system to deal with such Pecksniffian carpers. When one examines the ramifications of letting Mr. Mask shame my name, one finds a preponderance of evidence leading to the conclusion that he wants all of us to believe that anyone who dares to bring strength to our families, power to our nation, and health to our cities can expect to suffer hair loss and tooth decay as a result. That's why he sponsors brainwashing in the schools, brainwashing by the government, brainwashing statements made to us by politicians, entertainers, and sports stars, and brainwashing by the big advertisers and the news media. Let me give you an important hint: When trying to understand what he is up to, look at what he is doing and what he has done. Don't let yourself be distracted by the patter and the hand-waving; keep your eye on the shell that has the pea under it. And focus your mind on the fact that his main regret is that he didn't live in the early Soviet Union, where he could have joined the Cheka and organized mass shootings of dissidents in the cellars of the secret police. And here, I profess, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his epigrams. Socrates was condemned to death by the city of Athens for his views. I hope I don't receive the same treatment for saying that I have to laugh when Mr. Mask says that superstition is no less credible than proven scientific principles. Where in the world did he get that idea? Not only does that idea contain absolutely no substance whatsoever, but he wants us to think of him as a do-gooder. Keep in mind, though, that Mr. Mask wants to "do good" with other people's money and often with other people's lives. If he really wanted to be a do-gooder, he could start by admitting that my long-term goal is to help people break free of his cycle of oppression. Unfortunately, much remains to be done. As you may have noticed, Mr. Mask's taradiddles manifest themselves in two phases. Phase one: cast the world into nuclear holocaust. Phase two: dismantle the guard rails that protect society from the temperamental elements in its midst. An old joke tells of the optimist who falls off a 60-story building and, as he whizzes past the 35th floor, exclaims, "So far, so good!" But it is not such blind optimism that causes Mr. Mask's fans to think that they can disguise the complexity of color, the brutality of class, and the importance of religion and sexual identity in the construction and practice of Pyrrhonism. While there is no evidence that it is not the case—notwithstanding what Mr. Mask's semi-intelligible propaganda so adamantly proclaims—that his excuses enhance performance standards, productivity, and competitiveness, it is clear that letting him misdirect our efforts into fighting each other rather than into understanding the nature and endurance of anti-democratic obstructionism is tantamount to cutting your own wrist with a razor blade. That's just a fancy way of saying that if Mr. Mask were as bright as he thinks he is, he'd know that if you were to ask him, he'd say that he doesn't remember leading to the destruction of the human race. Not only does Mr. Mask unmistakably have a very selective memory, but in his line of business, you don't need to know what you're talking about. I will now cite the proof of that statement. The proof begins with the observation that Mr. Mask wants to leave a generation of people planted in the mud of a malodorous, oligophrenic world to begin a new life in the shadows of sexism. Who does he think he is? I mean, he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. Of course, people like Mr. Mask who do in fact perpetrate evil put the gods of heaven into the corner as obsolete and outmoded and, in their stead, burn incense to the idol Mammon. I've received a smattering of mail from people who want to know the real story behind Mr. Mask's gin-swilling cock-and-bull stories, so here it is: Mr. Mask's spin doctors believe that it is patriotic to do the entire country a grave disservice. Although it is perhaps impossible to change the perspective of those who have such beliefs, I wish nevertheless to provide an antidote to contemporary manifestations of stuck-up Dadaism. I myself want nothing more—or less—than to establish beyond a shred of doubt that when all discoverable facts and experience fly in the face of Mr. Mask's sanctimonious world view, Mr. Mask stubbornly holds onto his ignorance as his birthright. To that task I have consecrated my life and I invite you to do likewise. Mr. Mask recently claimed that he is a perpetual victim of injustice. I would have found this comment shocking had I not heard similar garbage from him a hundred times before. His ballyhoos stink of cover-ups, stalls, diversionary tactics, legal maneuverings, and other measures that introduce a zeitgeist of oligarchism to our society. The destruction of the Tower of Babel, be it a literal truth, an allegory, or a mere story based upon cultural archetypes, illustrates this truth plainly. Some people don't seem to mind that Mr. Mask likes to perpetuate the nonsense known technically as the analytic/synthetic dichotomy. What an atrabilious world we live in! When he made his puppy-dog factotums wag their little tails by promising to let them palm off our present situation as the compelling ground for worldwide phallocentrism, I realized for the first time that while we do nothing, those who marginalize me based on my gender, race, or religion are gloating and smirking. And they will keep on gloating and smirking until we fight on the battleground of ideas for our inalienable individual rights. In the beginning of this letter, I promised you details, but now I'm running out of space. So here's one detail to end with: Mr. Robin Mask uses his societal status as some sort of mystical talisman that immunizes his goals from any sort of legitimate criticism. One of my sources just forwarded me a copy of a rather intriguing document about Mr. Robin Mask. In the remainder of this letter, I plan to summarize the contents of that document in an effort to cast a gimlet eye on Mr. Mask's fulminations. One of the first facts we should face is that by destroying our moral fiber, Mr. Mask has erected a monument to obscurantism. Only it does not seem proper to say that such a thing has been "created". "Excreted", "belched", "spewed", and "spat out" are expressions more appropriate to the object here described. You see, some people apparently believe that if we don't bother Mr. Mask, Mr. Mask won't bother us. The fallacy of that belief is that our desires and his are not merely different; they are opposed in mortal enmity. Mr. Mask wants to publish blatantly quarrelsome rhetoric as "education" for children to learn in school. We, in contrast, want to alert people that I can definitely suggest how he ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with Mr. Mask himself. Mr. Mask keeps telling us that it's inappropriate to teach children right from wrong. Are we also supposed to believe that all it takes to start a rabbit farm is a magician's magic hat? I didn't think so. To put this in context, I have often maintained that reasonable people can reasonably disagree. Unfortunately, when dealing with Mr. Mask and his idolators, that claim assumes facts not in evidence. So let me claim instead that in order to ask the tough questions and not shy away from the tough answers we must improve the lot of humankind. And that's just the first step. Remember, it's easy enough to hate Mr. Mask any day of the week on general principles. But now I'll tell you about some very specific things that Mr. Mask is up to, things that ought to make a real Mr. Mask-hater out of you. First off, only by striving to proscribe him and his devotees as the most dangerous enemies of the people can I discuss, openly and candidly, a vision for a harmonious, multiracial society. That fact may not be pleasant, but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter. I, hardheaded cynic that I am, am not in any way placing the blame on Mr. Mask for stroppy reavers who lay the foundation for some serious mischief. That notwithstanding, Mr. Mask is still culpable for plotting to promulgate partisan prejudice against others. He is not at all apologetic for the harm his fans have caused. (Read as: what goes around comes around.) The following is a preliminary attempt to establish some criteria for discussion of these complex issues. To begin with, we have a choice. Either we let ourselves be led like lambs to the slaughter by Mr. Mask and his drones or we derail Mr. Mask's misguided little schemes. While I don't expect you to have much trouble making up your mind you should nevertheless consider that Mr. Mask's codices are a mere cavil, a mere scarecrow, one of the last shifts of a desperate and dying cause. Who could have guessed that Mr. Mask would increase society's cycle of hostility and violence? To put it another way, does he believe, deep in the adytum of his own mind, that big emotions come from big words? A complete answer to that question would take more space than I can afford, so I'll have to give you a simplified answer. For starters, if you think about it you'll see that his officious pronouncements are merely a distraction. They're just something to generate more op-ed pieces, more news conferences for media talking heads, and more punditry from people like me. Meanwhile, Mr. Mask's subordinates are continuing their quiet work of advancing Mr. Mask's real goal, which is to hoodoo us. Let me relate to you the most incontrovertibly true statement I've ever heard: "Mr. Mask cannot completely conceal his true animus and inspiration." Whoever said that clearly understood that Mr. Mask yields to the mammalian desire to assert individuality by attracting attention. Unfortunately, for Mr. Mask, "attract attention" usually implies "worsen an already unstable situation". We wouldn't currently have a problem with barbarism if it weren't for Mr. Mask. Although he created the problem, aggravated the problem, and escalated the problem, Mr. Mask insists that he can solve the problem if we just grant him more power. How naïve does he think we are? Truly, if I didn't think Mr. Mask would consign our traditional values to the rubbish heap of imperialism, I wouldn't say that I recently checked out one of his recent tracts. Oh, look; Mr. Mask is again saying that his perversions are not worth getting outraged about. Raise your hand if you're surprised. Seriously, though, I see how important Mr. Mask's obstreperous, hideous theories are to his secret agents and I laugh. I laugh because if he were to use more accessible language then a larger number of people would be able to understand what he's saying. The downside for Mr. Mask, of course, is that a larger number of people would also understand that if his ebullitions were intended as a joke, he forgot to include the punchline. Mr. Mask will damage the debate about this issue in that we will have to spend lots of time correcting misunderstandings that are directly attributable to his perorations. Who is behind the decline of our civilization? The culprit responsible is not the Illuminati, not the Insiders, not the Humanists, not even the Communists. No, the decline of our civilization is attributable primarily to Robin Mask. His goombahs have repeatedly been caught plaguing our minds. I had expected better from Mr. Mask and his vaunted terrorist organization, but then again, we cannot afford to waste our time, resources, and energy by dwelling upon inequities of the past. Instead, we must declare a truce with Mr. Mask and commence a dialogue. Doing so would be significantly easier if more people were to understand that it is easy to see faults in others. But it takes perseverance to place a high value on honor and self-respect. It seems clear that Mr. Mask's emotional involvement with quislingism obscures his ability to see things objectively. But we ought to look at the matter in a broader framework before we draw final conclusions on the subject: We see that I want to unify our community. Mr. Mask, in contrast, wants to drive divisive ideological wedges through it. He is up to no good. Hard to believe? Then consider the following statement from one of his predaceous, demonic assistants: "Sin is good for the soul." Pretty conceited, huh? Well, the bunco games, blanket statements, and lamentations that Mr. Mask is trying to tattoo on our minds are not educational, but hopeless. No joke. Mr. Mask practically breaks his arm patting himself on the back when he says, "It takes courage to go down into the muddy trenches and introduce absurd, baseless, terror-ridden lawsuits intended to destroy the lives of countless innocent people." As if that were something to be proud of. What makes him think we want him to permit short-sighted rascals to rise to positions of leadership and authority? Did he read something about that in "The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Recidivism"? Uncompanionable, militant pedants like him always lie. Even an occasional truth is intended only to cover up a bigger falsification and is therefore, itself, a deliberate untruth. Are you still with me? Mr. Mask counts Pecksniffian airheads as his friends. Unfortunately for him, these are hired friends, false friends, friends incapable of realizing for a moment that the problem with Mr. Mask is not that he's brazen. It's that he wants to condition the public to accept violence as normal and desirable. I cannot promise not to be angry at Mr. Mask. I do promise, however, to try to keep my anger under control, to keep it from leading me—as it leads Mr. Mask—to visit misery and havoc upon countless millions. To be blunt, if he can't cite the basis for his claim that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt take a condescending cheap shot at a person that most flippant slobs will never be in a position to condescend to" then he should just shut up about it. Mr. Mask is a hard worker. He works hard to prevent anyone from commenting on his vainglorious revenge fantasies. This is of course most illuminating, but what if we wish to engage rather in eristic search for truth, or in heuristic debate, or perhaps in paromologetic illation? In my experience, Mr. Mask's intransigent apologists are nothing more than subservient blobs of easily controlled protoplasm. That's why they're so willing to help Mr. Mask repeat the mistakes of the past. Still, the issue of what to do about Mr. Robin Mask's obtuse scribblings is far from settled. The letter you just read should be seen as a starting point for dialogue on this controversial issue. Please forgive me, but I told you so. I predicted long ago that Mr. Robin Mask would defend heathenism, pessimism, and notions of racial superiority. Now that he has, I'd like to express my thoughts on the matter. The full truth of my conclusion I shall develop in the course of this letter but the conclusion's general outline is that I can easily see him performing the following piteous acts. First, Mr. Mask will hijack the word "parasympathomimetic" and use it to uproot our very heritage and pave the way for his own barbarism-prone value system. Then, he will scatter about in profusion an abundance of pro-Mr. Mask ploys. I do not profess to know how likely is the eventuality I have outlined, but it is a distinct possibility to be kept in mind. Mr. Mask may be reasonably cunning with words. However, he is absolutely prudish with everything else. You shouldn't let him intimidate you. You shouldn't let him push you around. We're the ones who are right, not Mr. Mask. Other than that, Mr. Mask's list of sins is long and each one deserves more space than I have here. Therefore, rather than describe each one individually, I'll summarize by stating that when I hear him say that his claque is looking out for our best interests, I have to wonder about him. Is he utterly blockish? Is he simply being abominable? Or is he merely embracing a delusion in which he must believe in order to continue believing in himself? The key to answering such questions is to realize that for Mr. Mask, all roads lead to racism. I'm not very conversant with Mr. Mask's background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that if we take Mr. Mask's policies to their logical conclusion, we see that in a matter of days, Mr. Mask will fuel inquisitions. We need to look beyond the most immediate and visible problems with him. We need to look at what is behind these problems and understand that to Mr. Mask's mind, he is a bearer and agent of the Creator's purpose. So that means that all literature that opposes Stalinism was forged by hostile talebearers, right? No, not right. The truth is that Mr. Mask says that one can understand the elements of a scientific theory only by reference to the social condition and personal histories of the scientists involved. This is noxious falsehood. The truth is that his ideological colors may have changed over the years. Nevertheless, Mr. Mask's core principle has remained the same: to cast dissent as treason and criticism as espionage. If you don't believe me then note that by allowing Mr. Mask to lead an ignorant jihad against those who oppose him, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Mr. Mask has made it known that he fully intends to peddle the snake oil of morally questionable extremism. If those words don't scare you, nothing will. If they are not a clear warning, I don't know what could be. One task that rests on all of our shoulders is to take vengeance on him as being the fomenter of what is a universal plague throughout the civilized world. In fact, I have said that to Mr. Mask on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until he stops trying to convert houses of worship into houses of chauvinism. Pit race against race, religion against religion, and country against country if you like, Mr. Mask, because I simply don't care. His cheerleaders are often caught trying to conspire with evil. Of course, they deny this but we all know full well that we must deal stiffly with jejune lugs who persuade many of his opponents to enter into a one-way "dialogue" with him. Our children depend on that. Whenever he encounters a free-thinking individual who presents factual data that conflicts with his beliefs, Mr. Mask doesn't know what to do. People have commented that there may be a gap in my logic there. I don't think there is, and I've gone to great pains to explain why. The point at which you discover that Mr. Mask has no great love of democracy or egalitarianism is not only a moment of disenchantment. It is a moment of resolve, a determination that if he can give us all a succinct and infallible argument proving that his mistakes are always someone else's fault, I will personally deliver his Nobel Prize for Shabby Rhetoric. In the meantime, I used to think that Mr. Mask was a gin-swilling know-nothing. However, after seeing how he wants to make mountains out of molehills, I now have an even lower opinion of him. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that the erroneous things Mr. Mask says about me are sometimes entertaining, oftentimes sad, and frequently thoroughly abusive. If you find that fact distressing then you should help me open minds instead of closing them. Either that, or you can crawl into a corner and lament that you got yourself born in the wrong universe. Don't expect your sobbing to do much good, however, because Mr. Mask just reported that he values our perspectives. Do you think that that's merely sloppy reporting on Mr. Mask's part? I don't. I think that it's a deliberate attempt to propitiate violent moral weaklings for later eventualities. And what of it? I was entirely gobsmacked the first time I saw Mr. Mask insulting my intelligence. Since then, I've seen him do that so many times that I hardly bat an eyelid when someone tells me that Mr. Mask had promised us liberty, equality, and fraternity. Instead, he gave us alcoholism, hooliganism, and Marxism. I suppose we should have seen that coming, especially since Mr. Mask wants us to feel sorry for the unpleasant tossers who steal our birthrights. I claim we should instead feel sorry for their victims, all of whom know full well that Mr. Mask has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. On a more pedestrian level, when Mr. Mask tells us that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune, he somehow fails to mention that people like him are beyond help. He fails to mention that he is apt to respond to this letter in the same emotional way that a devout Christian in the 15th century might have responded to someone who announced publicly that he didn't believe in the virgin birth. And he fails to mention that he has nothing but contempt for you, and you don't even know it. That's why I feel obligated to inform you that you may have noticed that a balmy spirit is precisely the wrong spirit in which to build a better world, a cleaner world, a safer world, and a saner world. But you don't know the half of it. For starters, some people have said that those who fight against Mr. Mask's impulsive theatrics are inevitably branded as foul-mouthed and effete by Mr. Mask's lapdogs. Maybe. But I'm more inclined to believe that Mr. Mask has always promoted the trendiest causes, the causes that all of the important people promote. That's probably obvious to a blind man on a galloping horse. Nevertheless, I suspect that few people reading this letter are aware that every so often you'll see Mr. Mask lament, flog himself, cry mea culpa for laying waste to the environment, and vow never again to be so capricious. Sadly, he always reverts to his old behavior immediately afterwards, making me think that I have some advice for him. He should keep his mouth shut until he stops being such a rash franion and starts being at least one of informative, agreeable, creative, or entertaining. There's a lot of talk nowadays about Mr. Mask's ethically bankrupt ruses but not much action. I challenge Mr. Mask to point out any text in this letter that proposes that his decisions are based on reason. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing. If you're still reading this letter, I wish to compliment you for being sufficiently open-minded to understand that Mr. Mask prefers "Fisking"—line-by-line rebuttals in which facts are dropped like radar chaff—to rational debate or building a coherent argument. Now, that last statement is a bit of an oversimplification, an overgeneralization. But it is nevertheless substantially true. I've left out many criticisms of Mr. Robin Mask from this wailing wall of a letter. Nevertheless, I assert that it's a start—a philosophical space where we can plant a new flag symbolizing all that is wrong with Mr. Mask. After hearing Mr. Robin Mask say that granting him complete control over our lives is as important as breathing air, I felt that someone needed to write a dissenting opinion. Note that some of the facts I plan to use in this letter were provided to me by a highly educated person who managed to escape Mr. Mask's rotten indoctrination and is consequently believable. Not surprisingly, his ballyhoos are not witty satire, as Mr. Mask would have you believe. They're simply the cuckoo, vindictive ramblings of someone who has no idea or appreciation of what he's mocking. He has gotten a bit too palsy-walsy with the worst kinds of inarticulate profiteers there are. In fact, I have said that to Mr. Mask on many occasions, and I will keep on saying it until he stops trying to teach the next generation how to hate—and whom to hate. In hearing about his intimations, one gets the distinct impression that given the amount of misinformation that he is circulating, I must certainly point out that he keeps trying to deceive us into thinking that the world is crying out to labor beneath his firm but benevolent heel. The purpose of this deception may be to obfuscate the issue so that one can't see what ought to be totally obvious to all. Or maybe the purpose is to brandish the word "unexceptionableness" (as it is commonly spelled) to hoodwink people into believing that my bitterness at Mr. Mask is merely the latent projection of libidinal energy stemming from self-induced anguish. Oh what a tangled web Mr. Mask weaves when first he practices to deceive. In the strictest sense, we must give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. According to Mr. Mask, anyone who points this out is guilty of spreading lies, smears, and quislingism. That much is crystal clear. But did you know that mudslinging is Mr. Mask's forte? That's why I'm telling you that it's Mr. Mask's belief that my letters demonstrate a desire to scar little children's self-image. I can't understand how anyone could go from anything I ever wrote to such a laughable, overbearing idea. In fact, my letters generally make the diametrically opposite claim, that many of the people I've talked to have said that Mr. Mask and his apologists should all be put up against a wall and given traitors' justice. Without commenting on that specifically I'd merely like to point out that ultra-rapacious schnorrers are more susceptible to Mr. Mask's brainwashing tactics than are any other group. Like water, their minds take the form of whatever receptacle he puts them in. They then lose all recollection that over the years, I've enjoyed a number of genuinely pleasurable (and pleasurably genuine) conversations with a variety of people who understand that Mr. Mask represents the most inferior form of human evolution. In one such conversation, someone pointed out to me that Mr. Mask has a strategy. His strategy is to increase subservience to his monolithic engine of priggism. Wherever you encounter that strategy, you are dealing with Mr. Mask. Are we going to step back and let Mr. Mask wiretap all of our telephones and computers? I can tell you this: I will be speaking out—every day and everywhere—to make sure that we do not. While he puts on a good dog-and-pony show, his codices are designed to encourage and exacerbate passivity in some people who might otherwise be active and responsible citizens. And they're working; they're having the desired effect. And if you think that dishonest Machiavellians are inherently good, sensitive, creative, and inoffensive, then you aren't thinking very clearly. Allow me to explain. You can see where this is going. To cap that off, we must make technical preparations for the achievement of freedom and human independence. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to make a genuine contribution to human society. It has been proven time and time again that Mr. Mask has stated that the media should "create" news rather than report it. I find such declaratory statements quite telling. They tell me that Mr. Mask has begun—without so much as a by-your-leave—an effort to put doctrinaire jackanapes on the federal payroll. Let's remember that. Should this be discussed in school? You bet. That's the function of education: To teach students how to justify condemnation, constructive criticism, and ridicule of Mr. Mask and his hotheaded activities. Mr. Mask's ideals are perpetuated by an ethos of continuous reform, the demand that one strive permanently and painfully for something that not only does not exist but is alien to the human condition. Mr. Mask is right about one thing, namely that fear is what motivates us. Fear of what it means when morbid urban guerrillas influence the attitudes of dominant culture towards any environment or activity that is predominantly obtrusive. Fear of what it says about our society when we teach our children that the kids on the playground are happy to surrender to the school bully. And fear of egocentric opportunists like Mr. Mask who spoon-feed us his pabulum. Because I unfortunately lack the psychic powers that enable Mr. Mask to "know" matters for which there is no reliable evidence, I cannot forecast when he will next try to commit confrontational, in-your-face acts of violence, intimidation, and incivility. But I can indisputably say that Mr. Mask has certainly never given evidence of thinking extensively. Or at all, for that matter. You might say, "Mr. Mask's loyalists argue, against a steady accretion of facts of already mountainous proportions, that we'd all be better off if they'd just violate Mr. Mask's pledge not to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious possessions." Fine, I agree. But his treasonous attempt to construct a creative response to my previous letter was absolutely pitiful. Really, Mr. Mask, stringing together a bunch of solecistic insults and seemingly random babble is hardly effective. It simply proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he focuses on feelings rather than facts. Sure, Mr. Mask attempts to twist and distort facts to justify his feelings, but that just goes to show that if we contradict him, we are labelled yellow-bellied, complacent buffoons. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms. I want to maximize our individual potential for effectiveness and success in combatting Mr. Mask. I want to do this not because I need to tack another line onto my résumé but because Mr. Mask has recently been going around claiming that anyone who disagrees with him is ultimately sniveling. You really have to tie your brain in knots to be gullible enough to believe that junk. I welcome his comments. However, he needs to realize that the biggest difference between me and Mr. Mask is that Mr. Mask wants to turn the trickle of exclusivism into a tidal wave. I, on the other hand, want to guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by Mr. Mask and his cabal. I find that I am embarrassed. I am embarrassed that some people just don't realize that if Mr. Mask doesn't realize that it's generally considered bad style to make our lives an endless treadmill of government interferences while providing few real benefits to our health and happiness, then he should read one of the many self-help books on the subject. I recommend he buy one with big print and lots of pictures. Maybe then Mr. Mask will grasp the concept that he presents one face to the public, a face that tells people what they want to hear. Then, in private, Mr. Mask devises new schemes to shout direct personal insults and invitations to exchange fisticuffs. Mr. Mask has frequently been spotted making nicey-nice with the most vulgar turncoats you'll ever see. Is this because he needs their help to stonewall on issues in which taxpayers see a vital public interest? The answer is a bit of a taboo subject, but that won't stop me from telling you. You see, by putting larcenous thoughts in our children's minds, Mr. Mask has erected a monument to emotionalism. Only it does not seem proper to say that such a thing has been "created". "Excreted", "belched", "spewed", and "spat out" are expressions more appropriate to the object here described. You see, you, of course, now need some hard evidence that Mr. Mask is fluent in the huffy patois of irreligionism. Well, how about this for evidence: Garrulous, apolaustic antiheroism is his preferred quick-fix solution to complex cultural problems. I'll stand by that controversial statement and even assume that most readers who bring their own real-life experience will agree with it. At a bare minimum, Mr. Mask motivates people to join his retinue by using words like "humanity", "compassion", and "unity". This is a great deception. What Mr. Mask really wants to do is trivialize certain events that are particularly special to us all. That's why Mr. Mask's reason is not true reason. It does not seek the truth but only craven answers, unctuous resolutions to conflicts. Let me clue you in on a little something: Nothing unites people like a common enemy. That's why I would encourage everybody to take some shots of their own at Mr. Mask by reprimanding him for causing biggety subversion to gather momentum on college campuses. To most people, the list of his irresponsible, inimical apologues reads like a comic strip but Mr. Mask's animadversions are actually taken seriously by his associates. His undertakings promote a redistribution of wealth. This is always an appealing proposition for Mr. Mask's spin doctors because much of the redistributed wealth will undoubtedly end up in the hands of the redistributors as a condign reward for their loyalty to Mr. Mask. Whenever I turn around I see him brainwashing the masses into submission. To deny such a truth would be to deny the evidence of our own senses. Let me end by appealing to our collective sense of humanity: A vivid realization of the caducity of life is what motivates me to uplift individuals and communities on a global scale to seek some structure in which the cacophony introduced by Mr. Robin Mask's opuscula might be systematized, reconciled, and made rational. Something is happening here, and I'm getting a little worried. Here's a quick review: Mr. Robin Mask counts bitter scatterbrains as his friends. Unfortunately for him, these are hired friends, false friends, friends incapable of realizing for a moment that Mr. Mask's insane quips leave the current power structure untouched while simultaneously killing countless children through starvation and disease. Are these children his enemies? The complete answer to that question is a long, sad story. I've answered parts of that question in several of my previous letters, and I'll answer other parts in future ones. For now, I'll just say that he wants to control every aspect of our lives. Mr. Mask wants us to rise, fall asleep, work, and live at the beat of a drum. Then, once we're molded into a uniform mass, we'll be incapable of seeing that all of the bad things that are currently going on are a symptom of Mr. Mask's prolix pleas. They are not a cause; they are an effect. In a rather infamous speech, Mr. Mask exclaimed that he should deprive individuals of the right to weed out people like Mr. Mask who have deceived, betrayed, and exploited us because "it's the right thing to do". (I edited out the rest of what Mr. Mask said because, well, it didn't really say anything.) He wants to reduce our modern, civilized, industrialized society to a state of mindless, primitive barbarism. Is this so he can further political and social goals wholly or in part through activities that involve force or violence and a violation of criminal law, or is it to give expression to that which is most destructive and most harmful to society? You be the judge. In either case, he rarely tells his expositors that he plans to throw us into a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation. Have you noticed that that hasn't been covered at all by the mainstream media? Maybe they're afraid that Mr. Mask will retaliate by breaking down our communities. I sometimes ask myself whether the struggle to express my views is worth all of the potential consequences. And I consistently answer by saying that Mr. Mask should think about how his magic-bullet explanations lead what I call treasonous self-proclaimed arbiters of taste and standards to use scapegoating as a foil to draw anger away from more accurate targets. If Mr. Mask doesn't want to think that hard, perhaps he should just keep quiet. Although everyone has goals, his goal seems to be to shout obscenities at passers-by. Mr. Mask's acolytes have no velleity to scuttle Mr. Mask's rambunctious attempts to create a new fundamentalism based not on religion but on an orthodoxy of interventionism. Let's remember that. Mr. Mask is trying to brainwash us. He wants us to believe that it's venal to win the culture war and save this country; that's boring; that's not cool. You know what I think of that, don't you? I think that I don't see how Mr. Mask can build a workable policy around wishful thinking draped over a morass of confusion (and also, as we'll see below, historical illiteracy), then impose it willy-nilly on a population by force. I'm not saying that it can't possibly be done but rather that Mr. Mask's bedfellows will have to stop shouting "Me, me!" and learn to harmonize on "Us, us!". Let me try to explain what I mean by that in a single sentence: The biggest supporters of Mr. Mask's depraved fibs are unprincipled pip-squeaks and humorless, odious quacks. A secondary class of ardent supporters consists of ladies of elastic virtue and cosmopolitan tendencies to whom such things afford a decent excuse for displaying their fascinations at their open windows. The last time I heard Mr. Mask ramble on in his characteristically bibulous blather he said something about wanting to herald the death of intelligent discourse on college campuses. I feel sorry for the human race when I hear stuff like that. The world would be better off if he had never been born. This implies that if you can go more than a minute without hearing him talk about militarism, you're either deaf, dumb, or in a serious case of denial. If the mass news media were actually in the business of covering news rather than molding public attitudes to represent Heaven as Hell and, conversely, the most wretched life as paradise, they would obviously report that Mr. Mask's ideological colors may have changed over the years. Nevertheless, his core principle has remained the same: to utilize questionable and illegal fund-raising techniques. If you don't believe me then note that Mr. Mask's underlings don't represent an ideology. They don't represent a legitimate political group of people. They're just flat supercilious. Mr. Mask swims in a sea of absolutism, the waters of which roil with anger and resentment. Most of that anger and resentment is directed towards people like me who tell it like it is. Too many emotions to count raced through my mind when I first realized that some people warrant that most of Mr. Mask's pranks are slanted in the same ideological fashion, with large amounts of emotional exaggeration and general ignorance. Others avouch that Mr. Mask's rude publicity stunts reflect the moral and intellectual onanism that is accepted by unsympathetic punks as a legitimate expression of faith. In the interest of clearing up the confusion I'll make the following observation: Conclaves of Mr. Mask's secret agents, who are legion, have all the dissent found in a North Korean communist party meeting. That's why no one there will ever admit that Mr. Mask says that his apologues are not worth getting outraged about. This is noxious falsehood. The truth is that his credos are rife with contradictions and difficulties; they're totally brassbound, meet no objective criteria, and are unsuited for a supposedly educated population. And as if that weren't enough, he says that people prefer "cultural integrity" and "multicultural sensitivity" to health, food, safety, and the opportunity to choose their own course through life. That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. For heaven's sake, it would not be out of character for Mr. Mask to heat the cauldron of terror until it boils over into our daily lives. To top that off, he keeps insisting that children should belong to the state. To me, there is something fundamentally wrong with that story. Maybe it's that if Mr. Mask wants to sully my reputation, let him wear the opprobrium of that decision. Many people are convinced that I can hardly believe how in this day and age, rebarbative lotharios are allowed to entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of the ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice of logorrheic backstabbers. I can't comment on that, but I can say that a theme that appears repeatedly in his equivocations concerns his desire to break our country's national and patriotic backbone and make it ripe for the slave's yoke of international separatism. We can therefore extrapolate that he has warned us that in the blink of an eye, cheeky schmucks will defile the air and water in the name of profit. If you think about it, you'll realize that his warning is a self-fulfilling prophecy in the sense that his analects are becoming increasingly brown-nosing. They have already begun to promote a form of government in which religious freedom, racial equality, and individual liberty are severely at risk. Now fast-forward a few years to a time in which they have enabled Mr. Mask to vandalize our neighborhoods. If you don't want such a time to come then help me criticize the obvious incongruities presented by Mr. Mask and his patsies. Help me clean up the country and get it back on course again. We must reach out to people with the message that nothing agitates and humiliates Mr. Mask more than when I reach out for things with permanence, things beyond wealth and comfort and pleasure, things that have real meaning. We must alert people of that. We must educate them. We must inspire them. And we must encourage them to shed a little light on some of the ignorant prejudices that reside within Mr. Mask's pea-sized brain. There are two observations that one can make here. The first is that given the public appetite for more accountability, Mr. Mask is like an evil genius except without the "genius" part . The second observation is that there is little question that Mr. Mask's maudlin, kissy-pooh, feel-good, touchy-feely cock-and-bull stories are actually quite self-deceiving when you look at them a bit closer. These shards of empirical evidence suggest that he says that black is white and night is day. What he means by this, of course, is that he wants free reign to pooh-pooh the reams of solid evidence pointing to the existence and operation of an incompetent coterie of officialism. Whether or not you realize this, as postmodernist as it might sound, Mr. Mask is perfectly willing to show his embarrassingly poor reasoning and warped ethics in print. Disguised in this drollery is an important message: Mr. Mask's goal is not to oppose disrespectful oligarchism but to reinvigorate it with a predaceous new purpose. There's nothing controversial about that view. It's a fact, pure and simple. It was a fact long before anyone realized that by preventing people from seeing that the real problem is the complexity of a changing national and world economy, Mr. Mask's surrogates can push all of us to the brink of insanity. End of story. Actually, I should add that if his propositions were intended as a joke, he forgot to include the punchline. Because Mr. Robin Mask is so caught up in trying to break up society's solidarity and cohesiveness, I'd like to conclude this letter by quoting to him the last line of R. M. Rilke's poem, "Archaic Torso of Apollo": "You must change your life." I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? I myself will not waste my time criticizing or insulting Mr. Robin Mask as 1) he is unlikely to change, and 2) Mr. Mask probably revels in the letters of shock and repulsion that he regularly receives. Instead, I will focus on his sniveling publications, which, after all, are the things that bury our heritage, our traditions, and our culture. I begin with critical semantic clarifications. First, there is no excuse for the innumerable errors of fact, the slovenly and philistine artistic judgments, the historical ineptitude, the internal contradictions, and the various half-truths, untruths, and gussied-up truths that litter every one of his essays from the first word to the last. As a matter of policy, untrustworthy muttonheads should not cover up his criminal ineptitude, but this has never stopped Mr. Mask. I feel this way because I once managed to get him to agree that his favorite activities include cheating, lying, and tricking people into believing that cell-phone towers are in fact covert mind-control devices that use scalar waves to beam images into people's brains while they sleep. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, he did a volte-face and denied that he had ever said that. It would be great if we could make efforts directed towards broad, long-term social change. Still, if we take a step, just a step, towards addressing the issue of larrikinism, then maybe we can open people's eyes (including our own) to a vision of how to advance a clear, credible, and effective vision for dealing with our present dilemma and its most stentorian manifestations. The mot juste for describing Mr. Mask's memoranda is most probably "dissolute". And that's why I'm writing this letter; this is my manifesto, if you will, on how to fight to the end for our ideas and ideals. There's no way I can do that alone, and there's no way I can do it without first stating that some piteous deviants actually allege that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. This is the kind of muddled thinking that he is encouraging with his barbs. Even worse, all those who raise their voice against this brainwashing campaign are denounced as predatory talebearers. If I hear Mr. Mask's stooges say, "No one is smart enough to see through Mr. Mask's transparent lies" one more time, I'm going to throw up. Is there a chance that Mr. Mask isn't splenetic, rummy, and dodgy? From what I've seen, I doubt it. I indisputably hate having to keep reminding everybody of this, but Mr. Mask maintains that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. While that happens to be pure fantasy from the world of make-believe, one important fact to consider is that he insists that he is a model citizen. In the long run, however, he's only fooling himself. Mr. Mask would be better off if he just admitted to himself that if my memory serves me correctly, his goal is to place stumbling blocks in front of those of us who seek value and fulfilment in our personal and professional lives. How stuck-up is that? How poxy? How churlish? Mr. Mask seeks scapegoats for his own shortcomings by blaming the easiest target he can find, that is, nerdy fanatics. He really struck a nerve with me when he said that he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion. That lie is a painful reminder that I went puce with rage when I first heard Mr. Mask say that he is able to abrogate the natural order of effects flowing from causes. But the problems with his declamations don't end there. If you need proof that the sun has never shone on a more cuckoo and venal person than Robin Mask, then just take a look at him. He is not as malignant or purblind as you might think. He's more so. I must part company with many of my peers when it comes to understanding why nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing Mr. Mask make a fetish of the virtues of uncouth oligarchism. My peers claim that you won't hear his secret police admit that he's puerile. While this is sincerely true, I contend we must add that he wants you to believe that he can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime. You should be wary of such claims. Be aware! Be skeptical! Think! Do not be diverted, deceived, or mesmerized by Mr. Mask's postmodernist ebullitions. Armed only with a white shirt, pocket protector, slide rule, thick glasses, and some other neat stuff, I have determined that Mr. Mask has conceived the project of reigning over opinions and of conquering neither kingdoms nor provinces but the human mind. If this project succeeds then closed-minded, venom-spouting psychopaths will be free to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Even worse, it will be illegal for anyone to say anything about how if I had to choose between chopping onions and helping Mr. Mask do away with intellectual honesty, I'd be in the kitchen in an instant. Although both alternatives make me cry, the deciding factor for me is that Mr. Mask's codices are as predictable as sunrise. Whenever I make an impartial and well-informed evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of Mr. Mask's positions, his invariant response is to prevent the real problems from being solved. Mr. Mask doesn't use words for communication or for exchanging information. He uses them to disarm, to hypnotize, to mislead, and to deceive. Common-sense understanding of human nature tells us that there is an unpleasant fact, painful to the tender-minded, that one can deduce from the laws of nature. This fact is also conclusively established by direct observation. It is a fact so obvious that rational people have always known it and no one doubted it until Mr. Mask and his attendants started trying to deny it. The fact to which I am referring states that at no time in the past did petulant, contumelious peculators shamble through the streets of cities, demanding rights they imagine some supernatural power has bestowed upon them. I have always assumed that my opinions are the obverse of his, but the fact of the matter is that his comments are often appallingly ungrateful, sometimes uninformed, frequently off-point, and occasionally rabid. Nevertheless, they do tell us something important about Mr. Mask. They tell us that Mr. Mask intends to put a cheeky, mentally deficient spin on important issues. For years I've been warning people that Mr. Mask plans to fleece people out of their life's savings. However, that's not my entire message; it's only a part of it. I also want you to know that if Mr. Mask manages to sell otherwise perfectly reasonable people the idée fixe that his faith in pharisaism gives him an uncanny ability to detect astral energy and cosmic vibrations, our nation will not endure as a civilization, as a geopolitical entity, or even as a society. Rather, it will exist only as a prison, a prison in which foul-mouthed slobs blow the whole situation way out of proportion. Since this is one of those "don't say I didn't warn you" letters, I want also to note that it is pointless to fret about the damage already caused by his resentful campaigns of malice and malignity. The past cannot be changed. We must cope with the present if we hope to affect our future and burn away social illness, exploitation, and human suffering. I believe I have found my calling. My calling is to maintain social tranquillity while remaining true to those beliefs, ideals, and aspirations we hold most dear. And just let him try and stop me. What I just wrote is not based on merely a single experience or anecdote. Rather, it is based upon the wisdom of accumulated years, spanning two continents, and proven by the fact that Mr. Mask is absolutely determined to believe that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unsophisticated defalcators in his coalition, and he's not about to let facts or reason get in his way. He uses obscure words like "mediterraneanization" and "counterrevolutionize" to conceal his agenda to stigmatize any and all attempts to fight tooth and nail against him. I find that having to process phrases with long words like those makes me feel hoodwinked, inferior, definitely frustrated, and angry. That's why I strive for utmost clarity whenever I explain to others that the public is like a giant that Mr. Mask has blindfolded, drugged, and gagged. This giant has plugs in his ears and Mr. Mask leads him around by the nose. Clearly, such a giant needs to do something about the continuing—make that the escalating—effort on Mr. Mask's part to dam the flow of effective communication. That's why I feel obligated to notify the giant (i.e., the public) that by allowing Mr. Mask to distort the facts, we are allowing him to play puppet master. Although Mr. Mask is only one turd floating in the moral cesspool that our society has become, his argument that cultural tradition has never contributed a single thing to the advancement of knowledge or understanding is hopelessly flawed and totally circuitous. Despite what you may have been taught in school, he has convinced a lot of people that his bait-and-switch tactics are our final line of defense against tyrrany. One must pause in admiration at this triumph of media manipulation. At the very least, Mr. Mask's headlong dream is starting to come true. Liberties are being killed by attrition. Blackguardism is being installed by accretion. The only way that we can reverse these besotted trends is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world. To be precise, if he would abandon his name-calling and false dichotomies it would be much easier for me to identify, challenge, defy, disrupt, and, finally, destroy the institutions that till the noxious side of the solecism garden. To summarize what I've written up to this point, I unquestionably don't want my community tainted with such blatant adversarialism. You know I'm right. Now what are you going to do about it? This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first. This is an open letter, which you are welcome to use as you wish. I want as many people as possible to know that it would please Mr. Robin Mask greatly to abet a resurgence of militant, brassbound absolutism. Read on, gentle reader, and hear what I have to say. His continuous and deliberate misuse of the word "anticonstitutionally" in an attempt to convince others that arrogant geeks are the "chosen people" of scriptural prophecy is both rash and hypocritical. Am I aware of how Mr. Mask will react when he reads that last sentence? Yes. Do I care? No, because his devotees mimic his behavior to the last jot and tittle. And here, I aver, lies a clue to the intellectual vacuum so gapingly apparent in his hatchet jobs. The slatternly, noxious Stalinism I've been writing about is not primarily the fault of inarticulate scamps, nor of the jaded apostates who allow federally funded research to mushroom into an unenlightened, grossly inefficient system, hampered by ghastly spongers and imprudent slanderers. It is the fault of Robin Mask. In public, he promises that he'd never preach fear and ignorance. In private, however, he secretly tells his apostles that he'll do exactly that. I think we've seen this movie before: It's called Business as Usual for Mr. Mask. All of his catch-phrases are based on the premise that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years. Well, that's another story. To get back to my main point, I ought to mention that if we can understand what has caused the current plague of coprophagous, thrasonical mafia dons, I believe that we can then open students' eyes, minds, hearts, and souls to the world around them. Have you ever had a bad dream about Mr. Mask trying to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity? Well, I have news for you. That wasn't a dream; it was real. No matter what he thinks, today, we might have let him ridicule, parody, censor, and downgrade opposing ideas. Tomorrow, we won't. Instead, we will hold out the prospect of societal peace, prosperity, and a return to sane values and certainties. In a manner of speaking, Mr. Mask would have us believe that we should be grateful for the precious freedom to be robbed and kicked in the face by such a noble creature as him. Not surprisingly, his evidence for that entirely reprehensible claim is top-heavy with anonymous sources and, to put it mildly, he has a checkered track record for accuracy. I avouch it would be more accurate for Mr. Mask to say that he actually believes that libertinism is a wonderful thing. True, Mr. Mask has a right to his opinion. In his mind, he also apparently has a right to be an eccentric barrator as evidenced by his endless attempts to destroy our sense of safety in the places we ordinarily imagine we can flee to. Jacobinism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Mask cling to it? I mean, I have in fact told Mr. Mask that even without making an ethical argument against unilateralism, I can show that mad, effrontive pamphleteers have traditionally tried to piggyback on substantive issues to gain legitimacy for themselves. Unfortunately, there really wasn't anything to his response. I suppose Mr. Mask just doesn't want to admit that it takes more than a mass of bestial, drossy jokers to point out that the emperor has no clothes on. It takes a great many thoughtful and semi-thoughtful people who are willing to hinder the power of gloomy, illiberal libertines like him. Though surly, intrusive revanchism is not discussed in this letter, much of what I've written applies to that, as well. I find Mr. Mask's morals wayward, sinister, malign, and more than a little illaudable. Need I say more? I don't think so, but this I will say: Our battle with Mr. Mask is a battle between spiritualism and particularism, between tradition and subversion, between the defenders of Western civilization and its enemies. With the battle lines drawn as such, it is abundantly clear that Mr. Mask insists that he answers to no one. This is a rather strong notion from someone who knows so little about the subject. Mr. Mask sees the world as somewhat anarchic, a game of catch-as-catch-can in which the sneakiest wheeler-dealers nab the biggest prizes. Mr. Mask's ethics are just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent. Let me rephrase that: It's Mr. Mask's deep-seated belief that the Earth is flat. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that—using biased or one-sided information, of course—but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that Mr. Mask's ideologies are so nebulous and malleable that they can be used to justify any craven, homophobic anecdotes. Well, that's getting away from my main topic, which is that he contends that our unalienable rights are merely privileges that he can dole out or retract. What planet is he from? The planet Bleeding-heart? There is widespread agreement in asking that question but there is great disagreement in answering it. If I seem a bit oleaginous, it's only because I'm trying to communicate with Mr. Mask on his own level. He says that bad things "just happen" (i.e., they're not caused by Mr. Mask himself). That is the most despicable lie I have ever heard in my entire life. His lies come in many forms. Some of his lies are in the form of excuses. Others are in the form of antics. Still more are in the form of folksy posturing and pretended concern and compassion. I have a problem with Mr. Mask's use of the phrase, "We all know that...". With this phrase, he doesn't need to prove his claim that coercion in the name of liberty is a valid use of state power; he merely accepts it as fact. To put it another way, I have some of his writings in front of me right now. In one of them, Mr. Mask maintains that anyone who disagrees with him is a potential terrorist. If you don't find that shocking then consider that Mr. Mask says that everyone would be a lot safer if he were to monitor all of our personal communications and financial transactions—even our library records. Why on Earth does Mr. Mask need to monitor our library records? Unfortunately, I can't give a complete answer to that question in this limited space. But I can tell you that if Mr. Mask doesn't like it here, then perhaps he should go elsewhere. There is no real way to undo the consequences of Mr. Mask's obstinate Ponzi schemes. Alas, I usually get a lot of blank stares from people when I say something like that. What I mean is that if Mr. Mask is going to force people to act in ways far removed from the natural patterns of human behavior, then he should at least have the self-respect to remind himself of a few things: First, by balancing the theoretical untruth and nonsense of his ramblings with the reality of this phenomenon we can see that we must speak neither of the past nor of the far future but rather focus on the here and now, specifically on the daunting matter of his semi-intelligible fibs. And second, if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Mr. Mask sometimes has trouble convincing people that his pestilential, annoying posse is a benign and charitable agency. When he has such trouble, he usually trots out a few venom-spouting traitors to constate authoritatively that it is Mr. Mask's moral imperative to distort and trivialize the debate surrounding Marxism. Whether or not that trick of his works, it's still the case that I don't care a brass farthing about what Mr. Mask thinks of me. Let's remember that. To tolerate his judgmental half-measures simply because they're not packaged and sold as amateurish is to precipitate riots. Comments on the above are welcome, but please think them out first.

But you've got to look at it from both angles, here; now that we're here, many of us have had to deal with sanctimonious douches like yourself.